Story highlights Doctor alleged life-threatening delays in care and unnecessary heart procedures at VA hospitalWatchdog agency disputes VA findings of no "specific danger to public health or safety"(CNN) Six years after a whistleblower warned of poor care at a VA hospital near Chicago, a top government watchdog is warning that the Department of Veterans Affairs downplayed the risks. The concerns were first raised in 2011 by Dr. Lisa Nee, a cardiologist at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, just west of Chicago. She says her concerns were ignored and she left the VA in 2013. "I have absolutely no doubt patients died as a result of the care they did not get at the VA Hines facility," Nee told CNN from Chicago, where she now works as chief medical officer for a medical start-up. No VA investigation has made that determination.

Source: CNN March 12, 2017 19:37 UTC