The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report on the Los Angeles VA facilities, following allegations claiming 74 veterans died because they couldn’t be seen by VA health care providers. In 2015, former Congressman Jeff Miller requested the investigation to determine the validity of the claims. The OIG... Read more »

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A VA hospital is in hot water – again – after its director was fired for misconduct. Toby Mathew, director of Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, was fired after a doctor came forward with a scathing report of multiple misdeeds. The Washington Free Beacon reports. Lawmakers learned of the hospital’s issues under... Read more »

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Veterans with traumatic brain injuries survived IED-littered battlefields only to fight for their lives at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities. Misdiagnosis and incorrectly processed claims across the country led to a nation-wide review of TBI diagnosis and claims processing in 2012 by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The report found Boston VA facilities... Read more »

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If you need just one, solid reason for accountability at the VA, here it is: missing or stolen drugs. We learned about this problem a few months ago, and during what’s being called the “opioid epidemic” it’s not surprising that staff is involved in stealing medication like oxycodone and fentanyl. Not surprising, but still unacceptable.... Read more »

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After raising concerns about illegal and unsafe practices by the acting chief of staff at a VA hospital, how long should it take investigators to look into the issue and start taking action? A week? A month? In the case of Dr. Barbara Temeck, deputy chief of staff at the VA hospital in Cincinnati, it... Read more »

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The Department of Veterans Affairs just can’t figure out how to send mail. In February we told you about Scott Davis, an employee at the VA’s national enrollment office in Atlanta, who warned that the VA was about to throw 500,000 veterans’ applications in the trash because of mistakes they made. The VA needed more information to... Read more »

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Dirty sterile equipment storage areas. Insufficient supplies. Millions of dollars of missing equipment. Unfilled critical staff positions. That’s what a team from the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) found when they investigated an anonymous complaint at the Washington, DC, VA Medical Center last month. The situation was so bad, the team put together an... Read more »

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Even if you have reached the point where #VAFails don’t shock you anymore, this one will shock you. A group of Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA) employees – administrative law judges, attorneys and managers to be specific – were discovered to have created a listserv called the “Forum of Hate.” This forum served as a... Read more »

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A VA whistleblower has written a letter to President Trump detailing the potential trashing of over 500,000 veterans’ benefits applications. In 2014, Scott Davis, an employee at the VA’s national enrollment office in Atlanta, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the enrollment office’s mismanagement and possible fraud concerning 889,000 healthcare applications. He even testified before Congress... Read more »

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A new report from the Associated Press (AP) has found that Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) facilities nationwide are seeing a “sharp increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions or unauthorized drug use by VA employees.” The report also states that drug tracking and oversight at the VA are far less stringent than they should be.... Read more »

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