Report: Delaying medical care to veterans and manipulating records to hide those delays is 'systemic throughout' VA.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has released its interim report on the Phoenix VA Health Care System.
"Our reviews at a growing number of VA medical facilities have thus far provided insight into the current extent of these inappropriate scheduling issues throughout the VA health care system and have confirmed that inappropriate scheduling practices are systemic throughout VHA," the report says.
More than 1,100 veterans had been waiting longer than six months just to get a appointment to see their primary doctors, the IG report found.
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