“Following up on last year’s scathing report revealing systemic corruption within the Department of Veterans Affairs and dangerous conditions at Washington, D.C.’s VA Medical Center, the Office of the Inspector General found that D.C.’s VA Medical Center still hasn’t processed 1,550 inches of pages in patient records dating back to 2014, posing a serious health risk to countless veterans.”
“One local D.C. veteran who serves as a deputy director for Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Michael Figliogli, told InsideSources that the backlog is the “worst I’ve heard of in my 10 years [of working for veterans].”
“The new report, filed earlier this week on the OIG’s website, summarizes the Inspector General’s findings after visiting the medical center in May 2018, just two months after releasing the initial damning report detailing dangerous conditions at the medical center.”
“According to the report, because the medical center did not…” Read the full article here.
Source: DC’s VA Medical Center Still Hasn’t Processed 1,550 Inches of Pages in Patient Records – By Kate Patrick, January 31, 2019. Inside Source.
