VISN 8 (Florida and South Georgia) is run competently and their pharmacy regional director is one of the few people that I make it a point not to cross. Almost all of our Italian Mafia (
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NLR is considered to have some real issues with having too many restrooms in the old buildings and there are major EEO tensions arising from that. Several of the Chief Analysts of VHA and the CIO for analytic data both come from and live there, and NLR is one of the strongest informatics and analytics. For training, Fayettesville is considered to be better.