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The Bedford VA hospital in Massachusetts violated federal law by failing to properly search for a missing 62-year-old Army veteran, whose decomposing body wasn’t found until a month after his disappearance in an emergency stairwell just 60 feet from the door of his residential room at the facility.
A new 45-page report released last week by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General states that the body of Tim White was found on June 12, 2020, by another resident in an emergency exit stairwell at Bedford Veterans Quarters (BVQ), an independent-living facility privately operated by Caritas Communities Inc., an organization that provides services for homeless people.
The facility is located on the campus of VA’s Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital. The Caritas house manager had reported him missing on May 13, 2020, to the Bedford Police Department, and though his whereabouts were unknown for about a month, White never left Building 5 before his death. His crumpled body, which was so badly decomposed that a medical examiner couldn’t determine exactly how he died, was found with the same Boston Red Sox jersey, jeans and baseball cap he was last seen wearing days before his disappearance.
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Article URL : https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-va-hospital-broke-federal-law-missing-veteran-dead-stairwell