The head of the prosthetics department at Aurora’s Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center improperly canceled 1,000 orders without contacting veterans who sought artificial limbs, hearing aids and other devices to help them live more functional lives, a regional Veterans Affairs leader acknowledged.
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Less than two weeks after The Denver Post outlined "emotional, mental and psychological abuse” inside the Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, the VA reassigned the director, Dr. Lisa Brenner, to a less prominent position.
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow is demanding an accounting from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over an alleged scheme inside Aurora's Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center that left veterans without needed prosthetic devices.
In a letter submitted Friday to the VA's undersecretary of health, Dr. Shereef Elnahal, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow requested records outlining how many prosthetic department orders were deleted and what the hospital is doing to ensure veterans receive proper care.