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Saturday, March 17, 2007The VA contracts with private nursing homes to provide long-term care because some hospitals don't have the necessary facilities or don't have room for all eligible veterans. A VA hospital nurse is supposed to visit at least quarterly, the 2006 report said.The inspectors reviewed records for 10 of 17 veterans in nursing homes and found the nurse visited on "rare occasions" when requested but made no follow-up visits in more than two years. The nurse told inspectors she didn't have time to make the visits but reviewed information from the nursing homes' staff. Her notes "indicated that all patients were stable," the report said. "She signed one such note on a patient 12 days after his death." The report was written in 2006 and given to members of Congress. They, like the nurse, must have been too busy, too. posted by Sydney on 3/17/2007 07:56:00 PM 1 comments 1 Comments:
"Her notes "indicated that all patients were stable," the report said. "She signed one such note on a patient 12 days after his death."" By 10:36 PM , at |
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