Proctor said she not only wants to see Mays spend the rest of her life in prison,
she wants the VA to make sure this sort of thing can't happen again. “I don’t want to see it happen anywhere,” she said.
VA watchdog identified safety failings at hospital
In December, the VA announced that an internal review at the hospital had “identified concerns as to safe patient care and ineffective reporting of adverse events.”
The agency replaced the hospital's director and head nursing executive. It conducted a “safety stand-down” in which noncritical patients weren't admitted for several weeks. The VA said hospital staff were retrained in how to report critical patient care incidents.