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Long Wait For Home Care At Veterans Administration Draws OIG Attention

Published on Thu Dec 10, 2015

The long wait for Veterans Administration home care services is getting national attention, thanks to a VA Office of Inspector General report on the topic issued last month. The VA OIG found that the Washington DC VA Medical Center facility “had wait times exceeding a year for patients needing homemaker/home health aide (H/HHA) services,” the report says. And “multiple Veterans [...]
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