office of inspector general
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A Colorado veteran needed help. He ended up dead after the VA referred him to a nursing home
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The terrible chain of events began three years ago in Grand Junction when the Veterans Health Administration made a questionable referral for an elderly veteran named Ernest Griffiths Jr. to enter a private-sector nursing home for his dementia care. It ended Feb. 25 with suspected felony neglect after a foot wound went untreated and sepsis…