Showing posts with label Veterans Affairs Department. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Veterans Affairs Department. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2015

"Latest Embarrassing Episode For The Veterans Affairs Department"

"Latest Embarrassing Episode For The Veterans Affairs Department"

July 16, 2015 California Lawmakers , Shred Bins 0 Comments

Report: Vets' Disability Claims Ended Up In Shred Bins

By  Leo Shane III, July 15, 2015 Military Times

A pair of California lawmakers want to know why paperwork required to finalize veterans' disability claims ended up in a Los Angeles shredding bin.

The latest embarrassing episode for the Veterans Affairs Department comes alongside questions surrounding 240,000 deceased veterans on agency medical waiting lists and worries from senators that physician credentialing problems in Arizona may stop cancer treatments for veterans there.

Staffers for Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., said officials from the VA's Inspector General's Office confirmed they found key pieces of paperwork from veterans' claims files "inappropriately placed in shred bins" at the department's Los Angeles Regional Office.

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Friday, May 16, 2014

DOJ Won't Investigate Deaths Of Veterans Placed On VA Hospital's Secret Waiting List-- 'At This Time'

May 16, 2014 Attorney General Eric Holder , Department of Justice 0 Comments
By Francesca Chambers, May 13, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

The Department of Justice does not intend to investigate the deaths of 40 veterans who were placed on a secret waiting lists at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Arizona any time soon.

Attorney General Eric Holder said the issue was on DOJ's 'radar,' but it would not intervene 'at this time.'

'Well, obviously these reports if they're true are unacceptable, and the allegations are being taken very seriously by the administration,' Holder told reporters on Tuesday.

'But I don't have any announcements at this time with regard to anything that the Justice Department is doing,' he said.

At the center of the scandal is the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System, which CNN reports is partly responsible for the deaths of 40 veterans who were placed on the hospital's secret waiting lists.

VA hospitals are required to see patients within two weeks to a month of their request for an appointment. Between 1,400 to 1,600 veterans were not logged into the VA's official system in a surreptitious plot to hide the hospital's months long wait times, recently retired Pheonix VA doctor Sam Foote told CNN earlier this month.

'They enter information into the computer and do a screen capture hard copy printout. They then do not save what was put into the computer so there's no record that you were ever here,' Foote said.

Employees of the hospital then put the information into a secret electronic waiting list, and shred the printout, he explained, 'And they wouldn't take you off that secret list until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days so it would give the appearance that they were improving greatly the waiting times, when in fact they were not.'

Some veterans waited up to 21 months for appointments, Foote told CNN. And if veterans on the secret list die while waiting for care, VA staff at the hospital remove them from the list so that officials in Washington, D.C. are none the wiser.

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Friday, April 4, 2014

How Can Government Battle A 'Suicide Epidemic' Among Veterans? --Stress of fighting "terror"+ unpopularity of war?

April 04, 2014 Congressional Budget Office , Fort Hood 0 Comments
By Jordain Carney, Apr. 3, 2014, Nationaljournal.com
The Fort Hood shooting is an extreme and shocking example of what has become a chronic concern for the military: soldiers with mental-health problems taking their own lives.
And it's not just the active-duty military who face what has become an increasingly daunting problem.
At least 22 veterans commit suicide each day, according to the Veterans Affairs Department. This adds up to more than 2,000 veterans killing themselves so far this year alone, and the military community is facing what advocates refer to as a suicide epidemic.
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