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VA deputy chief: More employees face punishment
http://gazette.com/va-deputy-chief-more-employees-face-punishment/article/1535107VA deputy chief: More employees face punishment
By Dan Elliott, Associated Press • Published: August 5, 2014
DENVER — More Veterans Administration employees will be disciplined as the department sorts out a scandal over long waits for health care and falsified data, Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson said Tuesday.
The VA announced last week that it planned to fire two supervisors and discipline four other employees in Colorado and Wyoming accused of falsifying health-care data.
"These were the first in what I expect will be a long series of announcements of personnel actions," Gibson told the Military Order of the Purple Heart, an organization of veterans who received the medal for combat wounds. The group is holding its annual convention in Denver.
The VA has also said it plans to fire three executives of the Phoenix VA hospital.
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Gibson praised Congress for approving $16.3 billion to help shorten the waits, including $10 billion for veterans to get care from private doctors, called purchased care.
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The bill also includes $5 billion to hire more doctors and other personnel and $1.3 billion to open medical facilities.
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