I sure hope that, in light of the publicity this has received, our veterans will for once and for all get treated better. This situation didn’t happen overnight. It’s been ongoing for years and years. And we need to keep on our representatives and senators until it changes. Timothy Cox…….you gotta go!!!

Reports of a rising death rate and rooms spattered with blood, urine and feces at the Armed Forces Retirement Home prompted the Pentagon yesterday to begin investigating conditions at the veterans facility in Northwest Washington.

The Government Accountability Office warned the Pentagon this week that residents of the home “may be at risk” in light of allegations of severe health-care problems. Residents have been admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center with “the most serious type of pressure sores” and, in one case, with maggots in a wound, according to a GAO letter sent to the Defense Department.

Timothy Cox, the chief operating officer for the retirement home, said yesterday that the accusations are “without merit,” and he blasted the GAO for making “inflammatory allegations” without investigating them.

The reports came from medical personnel who treat residents at the historic veterans home, formerly known as the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home. The facility, run by an independent federal agency under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense, is home to more than 1,100 enlisted retirees, many of them veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

Read more at the Washington Post

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