Lois Henry reports:
Responding to allegations that a doctor had taken confidential patient records out of the Bakersfield Veterans Administration clinic, the VA announced Thursday that three separate investigations over the course of seven months showed that no such patient information had been “released into the community or abused in any way.”
“We are confident that these results confirm that veterans in Bakersfield and Kern County did not have their personal information compromised,” said David Holt, the VA Los Angeles associate director who was in Bakersfield Thursday to talk to the media and meet with veterans at the clinic just west of downtown Bakersfield.
He praised clinic staff for being vigilant and reporting their suspicions, but repeated several times that veterans had no cause for concern about their personal information.
Some of the original tipsters weren’t convinced.
Read more on the Bakersfield Californian.