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Ptah

(32,951 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:26 AM Jun 2014

New whistle-blower says Phoenix VA concealed deaths

Source: Arizona Republic (Phoenix)

A scheduling employee for the Phoenix VA Health Care System disclosed that she was the keeper of a "secret list" of local veterans who waited months for medical care, and she accused others
of altering records recently to try to hide the deaths of at least seven veterans awaiting care.

Pauline DeWenter went public as a whistle-blower Monday, saying she has spoken to investigators
in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Inspector General about the waiting list and
her suspicions of an orchestrated cover-up.

Her allegations were first reported by CNN. Later Monday, DeWenter sat for an interview with
The Arizona Republic to discuss her allegations.

She said the Phoenix VA Medical Center in early 2013 was having difficulty meeting a surge
in demand for medical appointments. DeWenter said a supervisor, who she declined to
name, ordered her to gather new-patient appointment requests week after week and place
them in her desk drawer. She estimated that more than 1,000 veterans were sidetracked
onto that "secret list" — ignored for weeks or months because they couldn't be scheduled
within a 14-day goal set for wait times by VA administrators.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2014/06/24/phoenix-va-scandal-whistle-blower-kept-deaths-secret/11297965/

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New whistle-blower says Phoenix VA concealed deaths (Original Post) Ptah Jun 2014 OP
Very Sad..nt k and r Stuart G Jun 2014 #1
All in on the trickle down economics. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #2

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
2. All in on the trickle down economics.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 12:29 PM
Jun 2014

What really pisses me off is that the execs at the top felt entitled to help themselves to the taxpayers money who believed it would all go to help the people we honored.

When did they start running our State & Federal offices like Corporate CEO's?
Who gave these grifters of our tax dollars permission to take more than their designated salaries?

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