The U.S. Veterans Affairs Administration released the first portion
of a three-part report on its Marion, Illinois VA hospital yesterday
and found the facility was in desperate need of leadership and oversight .
In the last two years, there have been 19 deaths caused by
substandard care at the hospital. Of those, nine have been at least
partially linked to one surgeon, Dr. Jose Veizaga-Mendez, who
administrators knew was not properly credentialed. The report also
found that a former medical center director ignored troubling patient
incident reports, failed to establish a follow-up process for patient
deaths, and allowed financial considerations to predominate
quality-of-care issues.
This follows a VA Inspector General’s report that came to similar conclusions earlier this year .
Both of Illinois’ senators have continually pressured the VA to stop
dragging its feet on the investigations into the tragedies of 2006-07
and the failed management...
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