Even as the battle for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh heats up and fills the newscycle with conflict, it’s worth noting one bright spot that both sides can agree upon: our veterans deserve the best medical care, and a new report shows their care is improving. The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Kesling reported today: “The quality of the nation’s veterans hospitals improved over the past year, according to an assessment to be released this week by the Department of Veterans Affairs, allowing officials for the first time to remove a handful of the poorest-performing centers from a list of high-risk facilities. Those five hospitals had been the target of a program that floods poorly performing facilities with expertise and resources, and the improvements are seen by VA officials and physicians as a measure of success. But 10 other high-risk hospitals continue to languish among the lowest-ranked facilities, and will remain the target of improvement efforts, officials said. Of 146 VA medical centers nationwide, 103 recorded improvements in service quality, and seven suffered declines. Quality is measured according to death rates, complications, patient satisfaction, overall efficiency and physician capacity under a system called Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning, or SAIL.”…
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