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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nJust in time for the President’s address to the American Legion, the Associated Press<\/a> reported the news that the Veterans’ Affairs Department Office of the Inspector General couldn’t find any veterans who died while they were waiting for care from the VA hospital according to the ;<\/p>\n Government investigators found no proof that delays in care caused veterans to die at a Phoenix VA hospital, but they found widespread problems that the Veterans Affairs Department is promising to fix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The AP changed their headline after the president’s speech to the American Legion from this;<\/p>\n To this;<\/p>\n By the way, the president used that little Associated Press headline in his little talk yesterday – that they couldn’t find any dead vets – to prove that he’s getting an undeserved bad rep in the veteran community.<\/p>\n At this point, if the VAOIG told me that water is wet, I wouldn’t believe them. They won’t rid their roles of phonies, like Joe Cryer, they won’t even bounce the list of DOD’s POW\/MIA office off of their own lists. Every day, it seems, we read about a new phony who jumped in line ahead of legitimate veterans. Why should we start believing them now?<\/p>\n Apparently, we shouldn’t believe them, or at least we shouldn’t believe the media filter that is protecting them. If you read the Washington Post<\/a> today, after the President’s speech at the American Legion Convention it says;<\/p>\n The Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 watchdog confirmed Tuesday that numerous veterans died after receiving poor care in a VA hospital in Phoenix, Ariz., but stopped short of substantiating widely reported allegations that at least 40 veterans died while awaiting care.<\/p>\n The VA inspector general\u2019s office said in a report that it reviewed the records of 3,409 veterans and found 45 cases where patients experienced \u201cunacceptable and troubling lapses\u201d in care. Of those, 28 experienced long delays in care, and six died, the report said. Seventeen other patients experienced care that \u201cdeviated from the expected standard independent of delays,\u201d and 14 of them died, the IG found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On page ii of the executive summary of the report (pdf)<\/a> it says;<\/p>\n The patient experiences described in this report revealed that access barriers adversely affected the quality of primary and specialty care at the PVAHCS. In February 2014, a whistleblower alleged that 40 veterans died waiting for an appointment. We pursued this allegation, but the whistleblower did not provide us with a list of 40 patient names. From our review of PVAHCS electronic records, we were able to identify 40 patients who died while on the EWL during the period April 2013 through April 2014. However, we conducted a broader review of 3,409 patients identified from multiple sources, including the EWL, various paper wait lists, the OIG Hotline, the HVAC and other Congressional sources, and media reports.<\/p>\n OIG examined the electronic health records (EHRs) and other information for the 3,409 veteran patients, including the 40 patients reflected above in PVAHCS\u2019s records, and identified 28 instances of clinically significant delays in care associated with access to care or patient scheduling. Of these 28 patients, 6 were deceased. In addition, we identified 17 care deficiencies that were unrelated to access or scheduling. Of these 17 patients, 14 were deceased. We also found problems with access to care for patients requiring Urology Services. As a result, Urology Services at PVAHCS will be the subject of a subsequent report. The 45 cases discussed in this report reflect unacceptable and troubling lapses in follow-up, coordination, quality, and continuity of care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Basically, they found less than forty, but they found more than the zero that the Associated Press (and the President) reported yesterday. By the way, the Army Times<\/a> says the same thing as the AP said yesterday;<\/p>\n![\"AP](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AP-No-vets-died-266x300.jpg\")
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