Inspector General: VA Medical Center in DC Put Patients at Risk

In a recent report, the Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs listed a range of overlooked and long-standing problems at the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center "sufficient to potentially compromise patient safety." The risk to the 98,000 vets served by medical center in the nation's capital was so high that the office of Inspector General Michael Missal took the unusual step of issuing a preliminary report to alert new VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin to the danger. For more details, see this Military.com article.