{"id":49034,"date":"2014-05-29T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49034"},"modified":"2014-05-28T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T19:34:03","slug":"va-oig-1700-on-secret-list-awaiting-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49034","title":{"rendered":"VA OIG: 1700 on secret list awaiting appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2014\/05\/28\/vas-ig-report-confirms-1700-on-secret-list.html?ESRC=todayinmil.sm\">Military.com<\/a> reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General&#8217;s preliminary report on their Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona reveals that 1700 veterans were on their &#8220;secret&#8221; list waiting for their appointments. In case you&#8217;re wondering; that&#8217;s a lot!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VA Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin, in a preliminary report released on Wednesday, offered no indication that any deaths are linked to the secret wait list and said the investigation is continuing at the Phoenix hospital along with 41 other facilities where complaints have been made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We identified an additional 1,700 veterans who were waiting for a primary care appointment but were not on the [electronic waiting list]. Until that happens, the reported wait time for these veterans has not started. Most importantly, these veterans were and continue to be at risk of being forgotten or lost in Phoenix HCS&#8217;s convoluted scheduling process,&#8221; the VA IG wrote in its report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s just one hospital, there are 41 others being investigated. For the record, I&#8217;ve never had a problem getting an appointment at the VA. I called last week for an appointment out of the blue and I went to that appointment yesterday, so I have to think that it&#8217;s a regional thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General&#8217;s preliminary report on &hellip; <a title=\"VA OIG: 1700 on secret list awaiting appointments\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49034\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA OIG: 1700 on secret list awaiting appointments<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49034","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=49034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49034\/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=49034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}