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I was employed as a Compliance Officer under the Indian Preference designation within the federal system with the Whiteriver Indian Health Services from 04/11/2021 to March 01, 2022.
During the timeframe, I was allegedly being evaluated for my performance. I was given my most recent performance evaluation around January/February 2022 which scored my performance low, I explained the scoring metrics did not take into account projects I had been working over a series of months. Some of these projects involved process improvement areas, incorporating rules and regulations from a federal agency, addressing documentation deficiencies for offsite surgeries and MOA integration, documentation deficiencies for COVID encounters and vaccines to initiate collection through Coding/Billing and reconciling this to ensure we had a proper process identified should an audit occur, etc. These were reported to the Compliance Committee which my supervisor and the CEO were members. These project updates were provided to committee members through virtual meetings. I inquired on the areas of concern within my performance evaluation, and expressed my belief the projects I had been working upon were not taken into full consideration during the development of my performance evaluation, and noticed within my performance evaluation that 'two people' expressed that my written emails were 'aggressive' and was placed in my PPE as a deficiency, i had asked for information relating to this and this request was either declined or ignored.
At this point, I requested to have the 'reviewing official' who was the CEO of the facility to impartially review my performance evaluation with my supporting documentation/attachments. I made these requests to meet with the reviewing official on three separate occasions to which all meetings were either rescheduled or cancelled.
Shortly thereafter, I was sent an email from my immediate supervisor indicating that my PPE was being decreased, a couple days after this email I was then approached in my office by my supervisor and the Acting Performance Improvement Director where I was given a termination notice from my immediate supervisor on 03/01/2022 for alleged misconduct and negligence.
I believe this action was retaliatory due to my seeking out an impartial review of my PPE evaluation and based on my immediate supervisor remark to me that no one has ever challenged her evaluations before.
*I am sending this request to your office for guidance, considering my attempts to re-enter the federal workforce have been adversely affected by this action that was taken against me. I have been a hard worker all my life, I have put a great deal of effort into my credentials. At the time this occurred, I was not strong enough to address this because survival was the most immediate concern at that time and addressing my overall individual health due to this encounter. I am sending this to your attention for guidance on what processes are still afforded to me to address this situation? *