{"id":65175,"date":"2016-04-09T12:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T16:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65175"},"modified":"2016-04-09T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T16:25:32","slug":"va-chiefs-in-7-states-falsified-wait-times-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65175","title":{"rendered":"VA chiefs in 7 States falsified wait times records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobo sends us a link to the USAToday<\/a> article which reports that while the Arizona VA folks were falsifying records of wait times for veterans’ healthcare treatment, it was going on in at least six other states as well;<\/p>\n

Supervisors instructed employees to falsify patient wait times at Veterans Affairs’ medical facilities in at least seven states, according to a USA TODAY analysis of more than 70 investigation reports released in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Overall, those reports \u2014 released after multiple inquiries and a Freedom of Information Act request \u2014 reveal for the first time specifics of widespread scheduling manipulation.<\/p>\n

Employees at 40 VA medical facilities in 19 states and Puerto Rico regularly \u201czeroed out\u201d veteran wait times, the analysis shows. In some cases, investigators found manipulation had been going on for as long as a decade. In others, it had been just a few years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

USAToday has been quite tenaciously tracking this story, even though it’s fallen off much of the media’s radar in the last few years. They also published a by-state list of the OIG’s report<\/a> findings.<\/p>\n

The fact that VA leadership all arrived at the same level of manipulation of data in the relatively short time frame proves to me that there is a cultural and systemic problem at the VA that isn’t going to be fixed by few high-profile firings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobo sends us a link to the USAToday article which reports that while the Arizona VA … VA chiefs in 7 States falsified wait times records<\/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-65175","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\/65175","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=65175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65175\/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=65175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}