{"id":68324,"date":"2016-10-06T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68324"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:33:23","slug":"va-official-says-that-healthcare-has-improved-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68324","title":{"rendered":"VA official says that healthcare has improved in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> says that VA Undersecretary for Health David Shulkin claims that healthcare has improved at their Phoenix facilities in spite of what the VAOIG report says.<\/p>\n

However, he said the report also showed how the Phoenix facilities have improved in the last two years such has more hiring, 70,000 square feet of additional space and “fast track” care for the emergency room.<\/p>\n

“We’ve seen our consults and our wait times come down significantly. And most important, we’ve seen our patient satisfaction \u2014 what veterans are saying about their care and their access to care in Phoenix \u2014 rise significantly from 66 percent into the mid-70s,” Shulkin said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, tell that to the 215 people who died waiting for appointments. This is from the report;<\/p>\n

The OIG\u2019s Office of Healthcare Inspections (OHI) reviewed a total of 294 facility consults for 215 individual patients who had open consult requests at the time of their deaths, or had consults discontinued after the date of their deaths. This included 87 deceased patients with 116 open consults from a report that identified patients who had open consults and a date of death associated with their medical record. The review also included 119 deceased patients with 169 open consults who had an active or pending consult on September 30, 2015, but died before that date, and\/or had at least one consult that was ordered from May 1 through September 30, 2015, and was discontinued after the date of death. In addition, OHI reviewed nine deceased patients\u2019 records with nine discontinued consults from a list of discontinued vascular consults provided by the complainant.<\/p>\n

Of the 215 individual patients\u2019 records reviewed, OHI determined that untimely care from PVAHCS may have contributed to the death of 1 patient. OHI found that this patient never received an appointment for a cardiology exam that could have prompted further definitive testing and interventions that could have forestalled his death.<\/strong> OHI determined that the remaining patients\u2019 records reviewed did not die because they did<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis is mine.<\/p>\n

Shulkin says that the cancellations were made by low level employees who didn’t understand the process, so it’s all better now – the six-figure bosses aren’t canceling appointments. I feel better and those patients are all a little less dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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