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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

NYT: Some Top Officials Knew of V.A. Woes, Before the Scandal - By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. DEC. 25, 2014

Some Top Officials Knew of V.A. Woes, Before the Scandal

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

DEC. 25, 2014 


Long before revelations in the spring that the Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix had manipulated waiting lists to hide that veterans were facing long delays to see doctors, senior department officials in Washington had been made aware of serious problems at the hospital, according to filings before a federal administrative board.

The documents in the case of the Phoenix hospital director Sharon Helman, who had been contesting her Nov. 24 firing, provided new details of how much officials knew about the medical center, including patient backlogs, shortages of medical personnel and clinic space, and long waiting lists…


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