Originally published on January 9, 2021 6:24 pm
Correction: This story has been corrected and clarified. Veterans were unable to get immediate access to donated name-brand toiletries due to a process that has since been changed, but the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs says residents never went without basic personal care supplies if they ran out.
The Coronavirus outbreak at the state-run LaSalle Veterans’ Home claimed a 36th life earlier this week, though the spread within the home has been in control for weeks after infecting 90% of residents and killing more than a quarter of the facility’s population.
But during the deadliest days of the outbreak in November, some residents were not able to get access to donated toiletries due to an antiquated policy that’s been changed in recent weeks. The old policy meant that residents at the facility would have to wait up to a week for access to donated supplies of name-brand shampoo, toothpaste or other personal care item
SOURCE: AG Jeff Landry
BATON ROUGE, LA – Attorney General Jeff Landry today announced that a permanent injunction has been obtained against Louisiana-based company VetAttend Professional Services, LLC and its owners, John Sutton and Marc Quiroz, prohibiting them from committing unfair and deceptive trade practices.
“As a proud veteran and the State’s chief legal officer, I will continue doing all that I can to protect our military community from being exploited,” said Attorney General Landry. “Our veterans earned their benefits by putting their lives on the line for our freedoms; the least we can do is fight to defend them from unscrupulous schemes that violate our consumer protection laws.”
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BATON ROUGE – Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Friday (Jan. 8), that a permanent injunction has been obtained against Louisiana-based company VetAttend Professional Services, LLC and its owners, John Sutton and Marc Quiroz, prohibiting them from committing unfair and deceptive trade practices.
Landry issued a statement regarding the matter, saying, “As a proud veteran and the State s chief legal officer, I will continue doing all that I can to protect our military community from being exploited.”
The Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, subsidiary 534GC in Beaufort, South Carolina scheduled 4,344 pending appointments in July compared to 4,567 the previous month, according to data collected from the U.S. Department of Veteran s Affairs.
Of the total number of appointments, 4,339 had a wait time of 30 days or less (99.9%) and five appointments (0.1%) were scheduled more than 30 days out.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in January 2019 reported that wait times for new appointments at VA health care facilities were similar to or better than wait times at private-sector providers between 2014 and 2017.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), however, released a report in July 2019 that cautioned that the VA s data-tracking system only captures part of the appointment process and fails to account for the time that it takes the VA to enroll veterans in its health benefits program.