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Seven years after its final shutdown, the former prison in Pittsburgh still stands. For now, that is.

VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Pittsburgh’s Veterans Affairs health care system had offered walk-in registrations and clinics aimed at vaccinating its oldest veterans before the state ordered vaccine providers to better serve older Pennsylvanians. It administered roughly 2,000 first doses at its clinic Feb. 6. A VA spokesperson said the system will focus on administering second doses to those veterans before booking appointments for those awaiting their first shot.     Veterans Affairs offices had already been taking calls for vaccine appointments. Pittsburgh’s VA has been vacci...

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Oversaw the most egregious examples of mismanagement that in a case of a legionnaire's outbreak at a va pittsburgh facility led to at least five veteran deaths. according to the house veterans affairs committee, diana rubens with, the va executive in charge of the nearly 60 offices that process disability benefits compensation claims, they collected $60,000 in bonuses while presiding over a near-sevenfold increase in back hog claims. in philadelphia, the director of the regional office received a $23,000 bonus in twfn despite doubling the backlog from 2010-2011. after a deadly legionnaire's ou...