{"id":49032,"date":"2014-05-29T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49032"},"modified":"2014-05-29T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T12:45:15","slug":"more-news-from-the-phoenix-vamc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49032","title":{"rendered":"More Info From that VA OIG Report on the Phoenix VAMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49034\">written an article already<\/a> today about the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and their report on the Phoenix VAMC released yesterday.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few additional details from the VA&#8217;s OIG interim report.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average waiting time for first appointment, as reported by the VA Hospital in Phoenix:\u00a0 24 days, based on a &#8220;statistical sample of 226 veterans&#8221;, with 43% waiting longer than 14 days<\/li>\n<li>Average waiting time for first appointment, actual:\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>115 days<\/strong><\/em><\/span> (same sample of 226 veterans), with approx 84% waiting longer than 14 days<\/li>\n<li>Number of vets on the Phoenix VAMC &#8220;official&#8221; electronic waiting list:\u00a0 1,400<\/li>\n<li>Number of vets found to have been waiting for care but not on any\u00a0 official electronic waiting list &#8211; e.g., that &#8220;secret waiting list&#8221; that Jonn mentioned in his article: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>1,700<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In case you were wondering:\u00a0 the &#8220;secret list&#8221; was over 20% larger than the official electronic waiting list.\u00a0 Pretty neat, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Also:\u00a0 it seems like &#8220;waiting time&#8221; reported to DC only started when someone went on the &#8220;official&#8221; electronic waiting list.\u00a0 So, yeah &#8211; I think there just might have been something shady going on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/oig\/pubs\/VAOIG-14-02603-178.pdf\">If you&#8217;re interested, here is interim VA OIG report<\/a>.\u00a0 Only about 30 pages total, so if you want to look it over it shouldn&#8217;t take that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn&#8217;s written an article already today about the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and &hellip; <a title=\"More Info From that VA OIG Report on the Phoenix VAMC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49032\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Info From that VA OIG Report on the Phoenix VAMC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,86,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49032","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}