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I hope the new rules for the VA to follow have disabled veterans in the room to help make the VA a better place for all veterans.

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Two veterans in a Veterans Affairs psychiatric facility languished for years without proper treatment, according to a scathing letter and report sent Monday to the White House by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, or OSC.

In one case, a veteran with a service-connected psychiatric condition was in the facility for eight years before he received a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation; in another case, a veteran only had one psychiatric note in his medical chart in seven years as an inpatient at the Brockton, Massachusetts, facility.

Examples such as those are the core of a report released Monday by the OSC, an independent government agency that protects whistleblowers.

The agency said it is still investigating more than 50 whistleblower disclosures alleging patient health or safety at the VA nationwide. Ref. CNN

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Records of dead veterans were changed, some even in recent weeks, to hide how many people died while waiting for care at the Phoenix VA hospital, a whistle-blower told CNN.

At least seven times since last October, records that showed that veterans died while waiting for care were altered or written over by someone else, scheduling clerk Pauline DeWenter said in an exclusive interview with CNN. The changes listed the veterans as living, not deceased, essentially hiding their deaths. Ref. CNN

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Report recommends restructuring Veterans Affairs medical care system

Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors met with President Obama, recommending a complete restructuring of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system in wake of a broad failure to treat veterans quickly. They reported on efforts to reach 135,000 veterans in recent weeks to get them timely medical care. Ref. USAToday

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The Veterans Affairs health system has a "Corrosive culture" That has led to personnel problems impacting the timely delivery of care, a report submitted to President Barack Obama said.

"It is clear that there are significant and chronic systemic failures that must be addressed by the leadership at the VA," Said the report by Rob Nabors, who Obama dispatched to assess the troubled department.

Nabors and acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson met Friday with Obama to deliver the update, which follows months of revelations in CNN investigative reporting. Ref. CNN

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President Barack Obama will nominate Bob McDonald, a West Point graduate and former CEO of Procter & Gamble, to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, a White House official tells CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta.

McDonald would take over a troubled department.

The VA, a massive bureaucracy with more than 300,000 full-time employees, is under fire over allegations of alarming shortcomings at its medical facilities.

The controversy, as CNN first reported, involves delayed care with potentially fatal consequences in possibly dozens of cases Ref. CNN

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The House overwhelmingly approved a $16 billion bill to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs.

It is a bipartisan response to the scandal over delayed care at medical facilities and allegations of alarming management shortcomings at the sprawling federal agency that serves millions of veterans. The Senate is expected to vote on the plan as early as Thursday. Ref. CNN

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The Senate easily approved a $16 billion bill to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The measure won overwhelming House approval a day earlier. It is a response to the scandal over delayed care at medical facilities and allegations of management shortcomings at the sprawling federal agency that serves millions of veterans. Ref. USAToday