Veteran Affairs Losing Doctors and Nurses Amid Understaffing, Facility Closures

“Our staffing in the ER is beyond dire now,” said Heather Fallon, a nurse in the emergency department at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago who had long been dreading the arrival of Sept. 30, the day the fiscal year came to an end. That was the day she says she lost two nurses — and the facility lost nine staffers in total — whose contracts ended…

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