Info on medical malpractice by Veterans Administration hospitals, physicians, and clinics

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This is only a SMALL part of the information GO to the website for all the information you are looking for: http://www.vamalpractice.info/ ----------- Information on medical malpractice by VA, or Veterans Administration hospitals, physicians, and clinics run by the Department of Veterans Affairs. While many veterans receive satisfactory medical care from the VA, others do not. This site is designed to provide information to those veterans, who have received negligent medical care, from a Veterans Administration hospital, doctor, physician's assistant, surgeon or other VA medical provider and to encourage discussion about this problem. The VA paid out more than $2,000,000 a week during 2004 for medical malpractice claims. It would be better for our veterans, and for the taxpayers, if the VA chose to provide better medical care instead. A review of our server logs show that some of our most frequent visitors are logging in on the VA's servers. In the event that they are VA employees who would like to share information about the conditions at the VA, I've started a blog so that they can post anything that that they want to share with the public annonomously.VA Malpractice Blog These are some of the VA's IPs that have been logged by our server. You sort of have to wonder why someone at the VA would spend 136 minutes and 34 seconds looking at this web site instead of doing something to help a veteran. Say, if your logging into this site, while your working at the VA, shouldn't you be doing something for a veteran?August 10, 2005Report created by Traffic Facts for http://www.vamalpractice.info on 08-10-05 Most Active Visitors 2005-01-01 00:00:002005-08-09 23:59:59 IPHostnameTime 152.130.1.16152-130-1-16.res.net.va.gov136:34 min 152.133.1.16152-133-1-16.kc.net.va.gov116:35 min 152.133.15.64kc.net.va.gov91:30 min 152.132.13.1152-132-13-1.dal.net.va.gov60:51 min 152.133.15.14kc.net.va.gov57:39 min 152.130.6.69res.net.va.gov50:16 min 152.132.9.132dal.net.va.gov30:39 min 152.130.6.194res.net.va.gov29:10 min 152.131.9.71sac.net.va.gov29:09 min 152.131.11.3sac.net.va.gov26:52 min 152.131.11.1sac.net.va.gov26:34 min 152.133.7.197kc.net.va.gov26:26 min 152.131.9.72sac.net.va.gov20:48 min 152.131.9.196sac.net.va.gov19:24 min 152.133.6.8kc.net.va.gov18:50 min 152.133.13.1kc.net.va.gov18:15 min 152.130.6.198res.net.va.gov14:51 min 152.130.6.129res.net.va.gov13:17 min 152.131.8.129sac.net.va.gov13:17 min 152.130.6.195res.net.va.gov12:38 min 152.132.9.3dal.net.va.gov12:21 min 152.131.11.2sac.net.va.gov12:18 min 152.130.15.192res.net.va.gov09:14 min 152.133.7.199kc.net.va.gov08:06 min 152.131.10.1sac.net.va.gov07:47 min 152.131.9.194152-131-9-194.sac.net.va.gov07:21 min 152.132.10.196dal.net.va.gov06:26 min 152.132.10.197dal.net.va.gov06:18 min 2004 . . Judge awards $7,400,000 to mothers whose children died as a result of malpractice by the VARead the complete Case OpinionJudge to rule in medical malpractice case involving Wilkes Barre VA VA Pays 409 Malpractice Claims So Far in 2005, for a Total of More Than $76,000,000November 26, 2005VA Estimates That It Has $528,000,000 in Claims Pending Against It- Paid Out $108,000,000 in 2004Auditors Find $12,000,000 Discrepancy in VA Medical Malpractice Payments1995 GAO Report on Malpractice Claims at the VAGAO Report on Cost of VA Malpractice- 1995Woman accuses VA hospital of negligenceNavy veterans widow sues US for wrongful death at Pittsburgh VA VA's Computerized Pharmacy Records Do Not Stop Medication Errors. Study Shows 1 in 4 VA Patients Still Subject to Serious Medication ErrorsAlbequrque New Mexico VA Found to Have Unsanitary Patient Bathrooms and Lack of Hand Washing SuppliesVA OIG Determines that a 21 year old Operation Enduring Freedom combat wounded veteran died as a result of Substandard Care at the Tampa VAMCPuget Sound Washington VA thoracic surgeons failed to supervise residents and VA management policy does not follow VA national policy or notifying patients of the right to file claims.Durham, North Carolina VA falsifies CCU documentation for defibrillators, fails to have an adequate number of defibrillators and has chipped pain, broken plaster and malodorous bathrooms.VA Admits That VA Cardiac Patients Suffer Higher Death RatePalo Alto VA Managers Violate VA Policy -Fail to Advise Patients of the Right to File Claims for MalpracticeLong Beach VA Fails to Report Malpractice to NPDB and Fails to Advise Patients That they Can File Malpractice ClaimsPhiladelphia VAMC Fails to Monitor Post Anesthesia Patients, Medical Records Deficiencies & Dentists Who Don't Change Gowns Between PatientsSan Diego VA RN Makes Mistakes With 400 Doses of MedicationBay Pines VA Lack of Equipment Forces VA to Cancel and Delay Surgeries and Threatens Patient SafetyLexington, KY VA Part Time Doctors Fail to Show Up & Supervise Resident Doctors in TrainingLexington, KY VA Physicians Gave Their Electronic Passwords to Residents, So That Residents Could Cosign Their Own RecordsVAs Own Peer Review Process Finds that Failure to Supervise Residents was Responsible for 63 Malpractice Cases From 1997-2002Kansas City VA Management Ignores Rodents & Unsanitary Conditions for YearsLyons NJ VA Fails to Check for Psychiatric Patient- Patient found Dead Several Days Later at Lyons VAMCBay Pines Radiology Backlog Unacceptable and Affects Patient Care According to VA OIGBay Pines VA Physicians Fail to Follow Up on Lung Cancer Cases7 Out of 9 Cases Reviewed by VA OIG at Omaha VA Demonstrated Substandard CareHidden Cameras Uncover Disturbing New Findings About Conditions and Competence Inside Some Veterans HospitalsVA Skirts the law to employ foreign doctorsVA fails to diagnosis cancer in ClevelandVA uses unsupervised residents and other practices that would not be accepted elsewhereVA doctor suffocates veteran when a lung tube was inserted.VA neglects patients in Dallas, VA neglects patients in Dallas Vet Forced to Call 911 from VA Hospital RoomFact Finder 12 Investigation into the VA Hospital in Kansas CityProbe in to Deaths At Butler PA VA Hospital Ends