May 10, 2014
Email shows WY VA employee urging others to falsify scheduling records
More problems with the VA falsifying scheduling records to show that patients were being seen in the 14 day window when the actual wait was many days longer.
Fox News obtained an email showing that an employee at the Cheyenne VA Medical Center was showing others how to "game the system" and falsify the records. Earlier, the same problem surfaced at a Colorado VA center.
Fox News has learned that the VA was informed of dubious scheduling practices at the Cheyenne VA Medical Center and at a community-based outpatient clinic in Fort Collins, Colorado, which is part of the Wyoming center, through an internal investigation in December 2013. The problems at and the investigation into the Fort Collins clinic were reported earlier this week.
However, the VA took no formal disciplinary action and did not order an independent probe into the matter until Friday, when Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki said he learned of the email.
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