Report: Oversight lapses at impaired pathologist s hospital
ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press
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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2019, file photo provided by the Washington County, Arkansas Sheriff s Department, Robert Levy is pictured in a booking photo. An Arkansas veterans hospital contributed to the errors made by Levy, a pathologist who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter while working impaired due to its poor oversight, according to an inspector general s report released Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Washington County Sheriff s Department via AP, File)AP
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) An Arkansas veterans hospital missed the errors made by a pathologist who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter while working impaired due to its poor oversight, according to an inspector general s report released Wednesday.
Oversight failures, a fearful workplace culture and lax quality standards for years at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Arkansas allowed a pathologist, Robert Levy, who was routinely drunk on the job to misdiagnose thousands of veterans sometimes with dire or deadly consequences, a new investigation has found.
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A watchdog report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General found that an Arkansas VA hospital routinely allowed an inebriated pathologist to misdiagnose hundreds of patients.
The VA OIG initiated a health care inspection of the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks (VHSO) in Fayetteville in the spring of 2018 after receiving a complaint in late 2017 about the facility s Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service.
The investigation was initiated after examining additional allegations related to the Path and Lab Service Chief, Dr. Robert M. Levy, misdiagnosing patients’ pathological specimens that adversely affected outcomes and altering quality management documents to conceal his errors, an executive summary of the report reads.
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The pathologist, Robert Morris Levy, was sentenced in January to 20 years in federal prison for involuntary manslaughter and mail fraud, after reaching a deal with prosecutors.