A local congressman wants someone – or some people – fired at Atlanta VA Medical Center on Clairmont Road following a federal report that links mismanagement to several patient deaths.
Gwinnett Rep. Phil Gingrey sent a letter to the North Decatur veterans hospital this week demanding details about what the center has done in response to the report last month, according to wsbtv.com.
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But when a team of powerful Washington lawmakers came to Atlanta earlier this month to get specifics, the executive staff didn't tell them about a troubling fourth suicide, later uncovered by Channel 2 Action News.
Joseph Petit's death inside the hospital last September went unnoticed for 24 hours.
"How do you forget a death, particularly in circumstances in which this veteran died? You don't, you can't, there's no way," Gingrey said.
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