The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department this week placed VA Augusta Health Care System Acting Director Oscar Rodriguez on administrative leave, citing “an investigation of the leadership climate” there.

This is the Augusta system’s second leadership change in less than three months. In March, Augusta VA Director Robin Jackson and a fellow top official, Kimberly Booker, were reassigned elsewhere amid a probe into “potential issues and questions regarding organizational health and workplace culture.”

Rodriguez, who previously served as the VA’s acting director in Columbia, South Carolina, became Augusta’s acting director in March. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment submitted through the VA Friday morning.

Lovetta Ford, previously the Atlanta VA’s deputy director, has rep

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