West Palm VA stacks up well in audit

(Source: Wikimedia Commons) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Thomas Cabuco, assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, draws Tuberculin Purified Protein Derivative into a syringe to be used in free Tuberculosis testing for homeless veterans during the Veteran's Village of San Diego Stand-Down in  2010.

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Thomas Cabuco, assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, draws Tuberculin Purified Protein Derivative into a syringe to be used in free Tuberculosis testing for homeless veterans during the Veteran’s Village of San Diego Stand-Down in 2010.

By Patrick McCallister
For Veteran Voice

The Department of Veterans Affairs took a one-day snapshot and found about 57,500 veterans waiting for appointments at its medical facilities 90 or more days after requests. It also found another 64,000 that had never gotten appointments requested within the previous decade. But the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center fared very well in a largely damning national audit the VA released on Monday, June 9.
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