The VA Cancer Spreads Nationwide:
Note: This Blogmaster is a patient at Cheyenne VA and has since the first found their care excellent in every way. What concerns me most is the date of the original discovery of the Cheyenne problems and the several months delay in action by the Secretary. As shown yesterday, the individual's conduct, if as alleged, was serious enough to get him out of the hospital immediately...that is what should have been done in 2013 with associated investigation to insure the problem went no further. No action was taken...and the problem went so very much further!
Shinseki earlier this week promised "swift and appropriate" action if wait-time records were falsified as a widening scandal over treatment delays brought congressional action.
The nurse, David Newman, works at the Cheyenne VA Medical Center, which was investigated late last year by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Medical Inspector in connection with allegedly falsified wait-time records at a VA clinic in Fort Collins, Colo.
An e-mail dated June 19, 2013, that appears to be drafted by Newman, a Cheyenne Medical Center telehealth coordinator, explained how to alter records to show that veterans saw doctors within a 14-day goal established by the VA.
