[rockinqsranch]

“..........I suspect the main reason some VA facilities provide better care than others has to do with their proximity to high quality TEACHING hospitals.....”

Concur. Experience allows me to state that.

[Hulka]

Long Beach VA hospital is a death trap. LA area has many teaching hospitals nearby and “they” bragged to me that they were a teaching hospital. . and preceded to provide dismissive, abusive, rude and unsanitary care that almost killed me. No hype, I posted my experience on FR a few years back.