{"id":44711,"date":"2014-04-24T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44711"},"modified":"2014-04-24T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T12:11:01","slug":"phoenix-va-secret-list-for-doctors-kills-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44711","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix VA; secret list for doctors kills 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=41955\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41955\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Veterans-Affairs2.jpg\" alt=\"Veterans-Affairs2\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41955\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Several folks have sent us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/23\/health\/veterans-dying-health-care-delays\/index.html\">CNN report<\/a> about the Phoenix VA&#8217;s &#8220;secret list&#8221; for veterans&#8217; appointments to see doctors. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The secret list was part of an elaborate scheme designed by Veterans Affairs managers in Phoenix who were trying to hide that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor, according to a recently retired top VA doctor and several high-level sources.<\/p>\n<p>For six months, CNN has been reporting on extended delays in health care appointments suffered by veterans across the country and who died while waiting for appointments and care. But the new revelations about the Phoenix VA are perhaps the most disturbing and striking to come to light thus far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The result is that at least 40 veterans have died during their &#8220;wait time&#8221; before they could see their doctors. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width='500' height='234' src='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/us\/2014\/04\/23\/ac-dnt-griffin-va-deaths-covered-up.cnn' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the secret list was a manipulation of the data related to wait times. Your name would remain on the &#8220;secret list&#8221; if they weren&#8217;t able to schedule an appointment for you in less than 14 days (the statutory wait time). If they weren&#8217;t able to schedule an appointment for you before that, you just languished on the list. The result was that the hospital appeared to have a exemplary record of meeting the wait time limits. Bureaucratic success! Because that&#8217;s all that matters among bureaucrats.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to [Dr. Sam Foote, a retired VA doctor], the elaborate scheme in Phoenix involved shredding evidence to hide the long list of veterans waiting for appointments and care. Officials at the VA, Foote says, instructed their staff to not actually make doctor&#8217;s appointments for veterans within the computer system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure their performance won the folks at the Phoenix VA some hefty bonuses, too.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several folks have sent us a link to the CNN report about the Phoenix VA&#8217;s &#8220;secret &hellip; <a title=\"Phoenix VA; secret list for doctors kills 40\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44711\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phoenix VA; secret list for doctors kills 40<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}