Are Puget Sound VA hospitals concealing delays in treating veterans?

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http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/08/01/3312631/are-puget-sound-va-hospitals-concealing.html?sp=/99/447/

Are Puget Sound VA hospitals concealing delays in treating veterans?
OpED
The News Tribune
August 1, 2014

The people who run the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs hospitals weren’t hiding the ball last spring during the national scandal over treatment delays for sick veterans. It appears they were hiding a different ball.

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Part of that closer look was a survey of schedulers, who were asked several key questions. One was designed to ferret out the use of separate lists to evade the computer system that records and dates appointment requests. The Puget Sound hospitals did well on that score.

But another question focused on dates requested by veterans: “Do you feel you receive instruction from the facility to enter a desired date other than the date a veteran asks to be seen?”

A full third – 33.33 percent – answered yes. If a third of the schedulers are being told to enter false dates, something is very, very wrong. Even 15 percent would be scandalous, assuming the intent is to cover up delays and inefficiency. Investigators are presumably giving this practice a hard look.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/08/01/3312631/are-puget-sound-va-hospitals-concealing.html?sp=/99/447/#storylink=cpy