A patient at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora died last year after a hospital staff member turned off their notification device alerting them to the veteran’s …
The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center paused heart surgeries for nearly a year between 2022 and 2023 because the hospital didn’t have the staff to care for those patients …
The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora still cannot identify the residue that has forced the hospital to postpone or move hundreds of surgeries since April. Initial testing …
Problems with sterilizing medical instruments, like the Aurora VA hospital recently acknowledged, are relatively common in Colorado, but the decision to halt procedures isn’t so ordinary. The Rocky Mountain Regional …
The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora is canceling surgeries until it can determine the source of a mysterious residue found on the hospital’s medical equipment. Staff noticed …
The head of the prosthetics department at Aurora’s Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center improperly canceled 1,000 orders without contacting veterans who sought artificial limbs, hearing aids and other devices …
On Feb. 20, 2023, a 77-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit at Aurora’s Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center for chronic kidney disease. Two weeks later, nurses …
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Aurora is making progress on improving safety for both patients and employees, though more work is still needed, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow …
In March 2018, the director of the Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Aurora Veteran Affairs hospital walked into the office of one of her …
In 2021, an employee with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Aurora alerted leadership to a troubling practice within the federal agency’s Eastern Colorado Health Care System, a vast network …