Trump health care nominee reportedly padded his resume then blamed it on a tornado

Robert Weaver, the Trump administration’s nominee to head the Indian Health Service, may have misrepresented his employment at a Missouri hospital, according to a report Friday in The Wall Street Journal.

Weaver, 39, is a member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma. The White House announced his nomination last October, saying he would bring “nearly two decades of experience in hospital, mental health administration, and entrepreneurship” to IHS.

Weaver reportedly told members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that he worked in “supervisory and management positions” at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, from 1997 to 2006. His résumé, available online, says he managed “all accounts receivable, budgets, patient access, and physician recruitment” in “various positions” for the hospital.

But several employees who worked in those areas of the hospital between 1997 and 2006 told The Wall Street Journal they did not recall Weaver.

“I was the budget coordinator during that whole time,” Rhonda Foust, who worked in finance at the hospital from 1981 to 2010, told The Journal. “If this person was over budgets, I would have known them.”

Jane Obert, the hospital’s compliance officer among from 1992 to 2008, and Diane Sadler, who worked at the hospital as an accounting manager from 1993 until 2010, also did not recall working with Weaver. Augusto Noronha, the hospital’s chief financial officer from 1999 to 2005, and Wayne Noethe, a former hospital controller, said they’d never heard of the nominee.

“I’m sure I would have remembered the last name Weaver,” Sadler said, “because that was my grandmother’s last name.”

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-health-care-nominee-reportedly-padded-his-resume-then-blamed-it-on-a-tornado-b6d6c972bc91/

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