Investigation indicates VA staff failed to resuscitate patient in 2016

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General’s Office says that the Buffalo VA Hospital failed to resuscitate a patient suffering cardiac arrest in late 2016.
According to a report released Tuesday, the facility director contacted the Office of the Inspector General’s Criminal Inspection Division in Jan. 2017 to report the death of a patient who did “not receive immediatelife-sustaining treatment after staff determined the patient was u