Let’s Hope They Don’t Forget To Mention…

January 29th, 2008 at 11:58am Andrea Zimmermann

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and state Veterans’ Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth today touted a new program that would screen returning Illinois National Guard members for traumatic brain injuries.

They are also offering the testing to all other state veterans as well, according to the news release.

Let’s just hope reporters at the news conference also ask about this:

Substandard care at the Marion VA Medical Center left nine patients dead and 34 others seriously injured during a two-year period ending last September, investigators reported Monday.

… The reports describe a dysfunctional, sometimes dangerous, environment in which the hospital hired physicians without fully checking their credentials, allowed surgeons to perform procedures for which they were not trained and failed to act on information that suggested that patients were at risk.

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