By John L. Smith
When Nevada State Veterans Home resident Charlie Demos Sr. died April 21, 2015, with deadly legionella bacteria in his system, his family sought answers.
Now Rep. Dina Titus wants them, too.
In her role as a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Titus is working to ensure veterans nursing homes, funded with federal dollars but administered by the state, receive sufficient oversight. Although the Boulder City facility isn’t in her congressional district, Titus has received past complaints about the Boulder City veterans home and recently responded to a contact by the Demos family.
Now she’s picked up an ally: VA Under Secretary of Health David Shulkin. Titus raised the nursing home oversight issue in a Feb. 10 VA budget hearing, observing “some of them just really aren’t operating up to standard. And the VA doesn’t seem to go back and check on them very often.”
Shulkin replied, “VA, as you know, funds this through a matching program, but does not have the responsibility for quality oversight. All that we have right now is an annual inspection. Again, if there are specific concerns on that and you think that we should have a more active role on that, I would be glad to work with you on that.”
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