VA Says It Tried To Fire Executive For Hospital Cost Overrun

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The Veterans Affairs Department was about to fire one executive because of massive cost overruns at a VA hospital outside Denver, and another was under investigation, but both retired before the department could take an action, Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said Wednesday.
It was the VA’s most detailed public explanation to date about attempts to discipline high-ranking officials over problems that caused the new hospital’s price to nearly triple to $1.7