A division of the Department of Veterans Affairs tasked with fixing up the VA’s broken veteran suicide hotline has dropped roughly 1.4 million phone calls from veterans since fiscal year 2015, a VA whistleblower told the Washington Examiner.
That high number of abandoned calls is raising questions about whether the VA is doing all it can to fix up the suicide hotline, which has been criticized as the latest part of the VA that is failing veterans.
Scott Davis, a whistleblower and program specialist at the VA’s Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta, noted that the VA’s Health Resource Center is slated to take over the VA’s suicide hotline. But according to data provided by Davis, the Health Resource Center is dropping hundreds of thousands of calls from veterans each year.
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