Report: Problems continued at Ill. VA hospital
Serious safety issues continued to plague a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital even after major surgeries were suspended two years ago because of a spike in patient deaths, according to a federal report released Monday. Surgeons at the VA medical center in Marion, Ill., performed procedures...
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- News Source: National Public Radio | 28 days agoA 2008 investigation found at least nine patients died because of surgical mistakes and poor post-surgical care at the VA hospital in Marion, which is located in southern Illinois. That report made recommendations to improve conditions at the...
- News Source: Charlotte Observer Online | 29 days agoSerious safety issues continued to plague a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital even after major surgeries were suspended two years ago because of a spike in patient deaths, according to a federal report released Monday. Surgeons at the VA...
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- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comSerious safety issues continued to plague a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital even after major surgeries were suspended two years ago because of a spike in patient deaths, according to a federal report released Monday.
- Blog Source: elliotts-yp.comReport: Problems Still Plague Illinois VA Hospital. Posted by admin. November 3, 2009. Two years after major surgeries at the VA medical center in Marion, Ill., were suspended following a suspicious spike in post-surgical patient deaths ...
- Blog Source: obamareport.blogspot.com"I apologize for what they went through and we're going to fix the problem."... Sen. Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat who is also seeking his party's 2008 presidential nomination, accused Bush of being slow to tackle problems with veterans ...
- Blog Source: vets4politics.blogspot.comTime passed and “Somehow I did not receive one of the annual 'you are directed to report to the nearest VA hospital for reevaluation' notices…and one half of my disability pay provided by the VA was stopped.”. The VA stopped his disability pay .
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