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VA Scandals
Shreddergate and other scandals
On the 13th of October, 2008, VA Watchdog dot Org broke the story about documents found in shredder bins at the VA's Detroit Regional Office.
A number of those documents were critical to veterans' disability claims.
As the story unfolded, VA finally began to release information on the incident and we learned that more than one Regional Office was involved in this shredder scandal.
The VA's Office of Inspector General (VAOIG) is investigating.
VA has instituted new guidelines regarding handling of documents.
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Five aid organizations have denied him financial support, and the VA told the veteran they have a massive backlog http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2838589/My-sacrifice-wasn-t-great-Purple-Heart-soldier-shot-five-times-Afghanistan-told-s-not-sufficiently-disabled-funds-build-wheelchair-accessible-home.html
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"An 81-year-old Army veteran in Wisconsin was told incorrectly that he was dead last week, in a letter that was just one of several that continue to pour out of the Department of Veterans Affairs insisting that people have died before their time. It said I was dead and not to cash any more checks, Kenneth Brunner told the Wisconsin State Journal last week. I read that and I said holy http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/11/14/reports-of-veterans-death-by-the-va-is-greatly-exaggerated/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sad story next but with …
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VA employee's lawsuit reveals retaliation by VA: In part: "Aruna Jha alleges the threatening behavior began just as a national scandal and Congressional probe into conditions at Veterans Affairs hospitals was brewing, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Jha, a social worker at the west suburban hospital for eight years, says in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that she warned her bosses in Sept. 2013 that the quadriplegic veteran's wife was upset with the VA and that Hines staff had been unresponsive to her requests. But when the wife, who was acting as the veteran's caregiver, hanged herself in February at her helpless husband's bedside, the head of Hines' spinal cord injury…
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Hospital staff said starting December 1st, the emergency room will only be open from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. seven days a week. Staff said if someone arrives at the emergency room after hours, they will have to send them to another hospital. http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/spokane-county/2014/11/05/spokane-va-hospital-cuts-24-hour-emergency-room-service/18535757/ Megan Crowley, VA spokesperson, said the large turnover rate at has to deal with there not being enough physicians to keep the doors open overnight. During the shortened hours there will be two full-time ER doctors available
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"In recent congressional testimony, acting VA Inspector General Richard Griffin adamantly denied that changes in the final report, which downplayed links between delayed care and up to 40 veteran deaths, had been "dictated" by VA headquarters. But e-mails released Friday by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs show that Sloan Gibson, then the acting VA secretary, personally corresponded with Griffin in early August, asking him to amend the report." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/31/e-mails-va-secretary-sought-changes-in-phoenix-report/18271257/ This scandal is far from over.
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"Securitynews 6 Outrageous Times VA Employees Did Wrong and Still Got Paid by You" http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/22/6-outrageous-times-va-employees-wrong-still-got-paid/ Paranoid VA Officials Paint Veterans As Crazed Psychos http://www.disabledveterans.org/2014/10/24/paranoid-va-officials-paint-veterans-crazed-psychos/ The second article is what prompted (I think) the new C & P BS idea discussed here recently under 'new rule or reg' ????and on the air in the show with Dr. Bash.this past Wednesday...
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http://vamalpractice.info/?page_id=418%2Fpage%2F41&paged=18
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http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/7010323-74/cord-pittsburgh-veterans#axzz3GxuROScF The Department of Veterans Affairs is promoting an administrator who advised against publicly disclosing a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak at its Pittsburgh hospital system, the agency told Congress.
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http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/va-doc-charged-with-child-rape/29283782 They believe he molested a 13-year old family friend, after slipping the child drugs in his hot cocoa.
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"SACRAMENTO - The Veterans Administration confirmed that a "do not resuscitate" armband was mistakenly placed on a patient who died following surgery Friday at the Sacramento VA Medical Center, but insisted the error was not fatal. Family members identified the patient as Roland Mayo, 65, a Vietnam veteran and former Riverside County deputy sheriff and marshal." Hope they got an autopsy because no matter what the VA spin is, they surely have a basis for a FTCA case. I thought DNRs were supposed to be in the med recs, if the veteran had one.This vet didnt have one there. http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/sacramento/2014/10/20/veteran-dies-after-armband-error/176…
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"A U.S. District Court judge in Little Rock recently found that a surgeon at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Little Rock had botched a surgery and awarded the 75-year-old patient $725,000. Walter Paul Hoover of Webb City, Missouri, sued the U.S. government in 2011 after a surgery in 2009 “caused complete paralysis of his quadriceps,” Judge James Moody Jr. wrote in his order on Sept. 18." Full Story at http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/101305/judge-awards-725k-turns-screw-on-va-in-malpractice-lawsuit
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In a strange twist of fate, as my right arm is in a splint temp cast, I've been looking through my records to pass time as I can't fly my RC s while in this temp cast. Although I won't get into the specifics of what was omitted, I have come across two documents which have been altered and are missing the physician's notes. I have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression since 2010. Private docs even mention possible PTSD, however , in the VA copy of my Cfile those hand written notes are omitted, actually covered up in white as if purposely trying to hide something. I kept looking and found that my LOD for anxiety and depression had two copies. One with hand written n…
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