By Chuck Raasch
A month after saying it had a candidate to be permanent head of the St. Louis VA Health Care System, the Veterans Administration confirmed Thursday that the applicant had withdrawn from consideration for the job.
That means a two-year trend of temporary directors at the facility continues, further angering members of Congress from the region. The problem filling the job comes amid newly escalating criticism of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a year after revelations about long waits for appointments and poor care in some facilities led to congressional investigations and the replacement of the leadership of the agency that provides health care for the nationās veterans.
Citing recent reports showing even longer wait lines for people seeking medical treatment at
VA facilities than a year ago, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., this week said that the problems at the John Cochran VA Medical Center epitomize the agencyās broader performance.
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