PHOENIX – The Arizona Republic reported on March 14th last that the Arizona State Hospital would not loose federal funding. An investigation was prompted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicad Services after one patient died the previous September and six patients harmed themselves.

The Arizona State Hospital corrected security problems that allowed patients to harm themselves.

It took the unfortunate deaths of over 40 veterans in the Phoenix VA hospital alone to prompt an investigation. Recently it was learned that the Colorado VA hospital also falsified wait times although there are no reports of deaths as a result.

Long waits for treatment are not new to veterans who learn that some VA centers are better than others. The alleged “secret lists,” however, are a new twist in the care veterans receive at VA centers.

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