Administrators at a Chicago-area VA hospital knew they had a cockroach problem so severe that bugs were served in patients’ food for years, yet both in-house kitchen inspectors and management did nothing to resolve the problem, the Veteran Affairs Office of Inspector General said in a report issued Tuesday.
Even though employees had been complaining about the infestation since 2011, VA inspectors only began investigating on May 10, 2016 after a news article had documented the infestation at the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Ill. The report gave no reason why its public release was delayed a year.
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