Posted on 08/24/2016 7:27:18 PM PDT by combat_boots
A 76-year-old veteran committed suicide on Sunday in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Long Island, where he had been a patient, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
Peter A. Kaisen, of Islip, was pronounced dead after he shot himself outside Building 92, the nursing home at the medical center.
The hospital is part of the Veterans Affairs medical system, the nation’s largest integrated health care organization, which has been under scrutiny since 2014, when the department confirmed that numerous patients had died awaiting treatment at a V.A. hospital in Phoenix. Officials there had tried to cover up long waiting times for 1,700 veterans seeking medical care. A study released by the Government Accountability Office in April indicated that the system had yet to fix its scheduling problems.
Why Mr. Kaisen decided to end his life was not immediately known, but two people connected to the hospital who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his death said that he had been frustrated that he was unable to see an emergency-room physician for reasons related to his mental health. “He went to the E.R. and was denied service,” one of the people, who currently works at the hospital, said. “And then he went to his car and shot himself.”
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He was 76...very possibly Vietnam.
“I have had nothing but stellar care through my VA.”
I have a friend that is also very pleased with his care.
Personally, I applied for care 15 months ago. I was confirmed as a combat vet, put in the paper work, heard nothing since.
Considering the horror stories, I do not plan on following up.
My point is, though, it must have to do with management at a regional level, with no upper management at all that cares enough to get the slackers in line.
You’re welcome. And thank YOU for your service to our country. Hope you and yours fully recover and live a long, happy and healthy life. :)
The poster to which I responded said he WAS a combat veteran yet nothing in the article said that.
Practically everyone of his age group,and mine, is a veteran but most of them never saw combat.
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Sadly not true.
Following WWII a private charity provided vets wheelchairs because the VA would not.
This was not luxury items this was wheelchairs for guys who could not walk.
I am glad for people who have had good experience with the VA. Mine, on behalf of my husband has been, to put it bluntly, cruddy.
Very sad. RIP.
Maybe because he didn’t arrive to the ER by ambulance? We had a veteran show up to the VA hospital in Seattle with a broken ankle and they turned him away because of that. So he went to his car in the parking lot and called the ambulance.
Plenty of money to pay Iran for extortion.
One of the “worst” VA facilities is here in Reno. Many report excellent care, many more report terrible service and care. There are several factors in the reporting by individuals; the first appears to be expectations about what they should receive and an apparent unwillingness to study and understand how the system works. A group of concerned citizens is working to set up private support for vets staffed by people that have successfully dealt with the VA. Slow going and an uphill effort.
I have never been less proud of America.
Lord, please let Trump turn us back to what we ought to be.
So awful!
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