Audie Murphy VA hospital report shows privacy violations, failure to meet safety requirements – Texas Public Radio | TPR

Audie Murphy VA hospital report shows privacy violations, failure to meet safety requirements  Texas Public Radio | TPR

A new report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General found mental health care at San Antonio’s Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital failed to meet the agency’s standards in several categories. A new report this week from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General found mental health care at San Antonio’s Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital failed to meet the agency’s standards in several categories. The OIG conducted an on-site visit to the hospital for two weeks in January and released its recommendations and findings in a public report on Sept. 14. The evaluation comes after two service members, U.S.

Marine veteran Enrique Ramos Jr. and U.S. Navy veteran Mark Miller, died by suicide in the parking lot of the hospital last year. The report from the independent oversight division looked at hospital leadership, recovery-oriented principles, clinical care coordination, suicide prevention and safety for mental health care at Audie Murphy. In three categories, only some standards were met, and the OIG issued 13 total recommendations for improved care. “Prior to the release of the report, VA began taking corrective action to address the issues identified by the Office of the Inspector General and is on track to complete them in the coming months,” a South Texas VA spokesperson told the San