VAMC Patient Access Data As Of July 17, 2014
In this report released on July 17, 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recounted its progress from May 15, 2014 through July 1, 2014 on reducing veterans wait times for appointments. The report includes a table that shows, by facility, the total number of appointments scheduled and the number and percentage scheduled for waits of various lengths. Since late May 2014, after an audit of wait times at the Phoenix Health Care System (HCS) revealed serious scheduling and access problems at that system and others, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has been working to get more than 160,000 . . .
