The investigation into complaints that Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities concealed long waits for healthcare has expanded to 26 sites, the agency's inspector general's office confirmed Wednesday.
The office, which previously identified VA facilities in Phoenix, San Antonio and Fort Collins, Colo., as the subject of its review, declined to identify the new sites.
The expanded investigation comes as President Obama was due to meet Wednesday morning with Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki and then make a statement from the White House.
Also, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors will be flying to the VA facility in Phoenix, which has been accused of maintaining secret waiting lists to hide delays in treating veterans.
Later Wednesday, the House is to vote on legislation that would give the VA secretary new authority to fire senior employees. The proposed VA Management Accountability Act has Republican and Democratic co-sponsors and the support of veterans groups.
Richard J. Griffin, the VA's acting inspector general, told a Senate committee last week that he expects to have the findings of his investigation ready in August. He also said his review could lead to criminal charges.
Griffin told lawmakers last week that his investigators were examining whether the Phoenix facility's waiting list "purposefully omitted the names of veterans waiting for care, and if so, at whose direction" and whether any veterans' deaths were related to delays in care.
He also said he had expanded his review in response to reports of manipulated waiting times at other VA facilities from the inspector general's hotline, members of Congress and the media, noting his investigators had responded to 10 new allegations that arose after reports of abuses at the Phoenix VA facility.
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