• Removing the 14-day scheduling goal.
Ordering an independent, outside audit of VHA scheduling practices across the system. This would differ from a review being conducted by the VA inspector general’s office.
• Applying reforms announced for the Phoenix VA facility to others considered the “most challenged.”
• Deploying mobile medical units to provide services to veterans awaiting care.
• Suspending all performance awards for VHA senior executives for fiscal year 2014, which runs through September.
CNN first reported the extensive problems at the Phoenix VA facility, including an interview with a whistleblower who confirmed 40 veterans died while waiting for care there.