Veronica – Please paste your homework in the blog posts, don’t attach a Word document. It slow down my grading process. Thanks
These are not in APA style and do not have hyperlinks to the articles as I requested in the assignment
Veteran Affairs now accused of falsifying patient wait times at Seven Facilitates Stock Watch April 11, 2016 Monday 6:30 AM EST
Congress seeks to hammer out fix to veterans’ health care Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) July 16, 2014 Wednesday
Washington: Isakson Encourages VA to Adopt Systemwide Health Care Best Practices US Official News September 10, 2016 Saturday
I searched Arkansas Veterans wait times and Arkansas Veterans healthcare and wait times and came up with a lot of results. These three because they seemed interesting to me. (cite the article source and date for this) First, Veterans Affairs now accused of falsifying patient wait times at Seven Facilitates explored investigations revealed different states that supervisors instructed schedulers to manipulate wait times. It included Arkansas, California, Delaware, Illinois, New York, Texas and Vermont. Three of those involved with falsifying data had to leave their designation after reports identified them. With this information being brought to light thousands of schedules are being retrained and softwares are being updated to make scheduling appointment easier.
In the article (be specific- which one?), Congress seeks to hammer out fix to veterans’ health care, it discussed different political parties coming together in disgust for long wait times. This was an issue under President George W. Bush when he found a list of 236,000 veterans waiting for primary or follow-up care (when?). Some had to wait more than three months for their first medical appointments. Finally, in the Washington: Isakson Encourages VA to Adopt System Wide Health Care Best Practices article discussed recovering from the scandal. So, all of the articles talked about the scandal and veterans’ health care and wait times at those facilities offered specifically to them as well as what was happening when these articles were written. One important thing to think about is that with these extensive wait times it leaves veterans at risk to become sicker and some veterans even died while waiting for care after serving for the government that is supposed to take care of them.
Data Questions
When does 2017 data come out? Why?
Why is Little Rock considered prioritized to get additional funding? How is that decided?
Veronica – Please be specific with the sources of information cited in this summary.
The Isakson item appears to be a press release. I asked for news articles.
These articles were not cited in APA style and do not have hyperlinks, as I requested in the assignment.
Points: 3 of 5.