{"id":42102,"date":"2016-12-12T00:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42102"},"modified":"2016-12-12T00:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:47:52","slug":"va-hospital-bay-pines-tampa-left-body-of-veteran-in-shower-room-for-over-9-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/12\/va-hospital-bay-pines-tampa-left-body-of-veteran-in-shower-room-for-over-9-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Hospital: Bay Pines Tampa Left Body of Veteran in Shower Room For Over 9 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting:<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42103\" title=\"Bay Pines\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bay-Pines-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bay-Pines-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bay-Pines-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bay-Pines.jpg 1861w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in the Tampa Bay, Florida area left a body in a shower for over nine hours after a veteran died and proper pickup procedures to the morgue weren&#8217;t followed.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Times on Sunday (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2goW2NK\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2goW2NK<\/a>\u00a0) reported that an internal investigation concluded that staff at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baypines.va.gov\/BAYPINES\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Pines VA Healthcare System<\/a>\u00a0failed to provide appropriate post-mortem care to the veteran&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>The investigative report said that leaving the body unattended for so long increased the chance of decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed veteran died in February after spending time in hospice care.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The hospital&#8217;s Administrative Investigation Board ordered retraining for staff.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital spokesman Jason Dangel says hospital officials view what happened as unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Information from: Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tampabay.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting: The\u00a0staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in the Tampa Bay, Florida area left a body in a shower for over nine hours after a veteran&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}