10 patients died and the questions are still not answered, so the halt on surgeries remains in place, and many physicians were able to transfer to other facilities, retire or quit, yet where's the transparency we want today. The community would like to know. There were also 34 more cases of sub standard care investigated. I am not sure what a public flogging meant here, but I would tend to see it as a non transparency move, but I guess at times goes on, perhaps more information might 
surface as to the findings and what took place. Lack of transparency has a tendency to create lawsuits as well.
This is somewhat very different from what the private sector is working at, with being more up front and honest, so it does seem strange to me that this is being kept under the carpet, but there are those pushing for a release of the information to the Department of Justice and there are lawsuits as well, naming one surgeon who practiced there in particular. In private sector, this I don't believe would stand a chance in you know what to exist and there are more hospital report cards existing on the web today offering more information than what has every been there. BD
MARION, Ill. (AP) The head of the nation's Veterans Affairs system said Saturday it still could be months before inpatient surgeries resume at a southern Illinois hospital. But rehabbing the site's image after a surge in patient deaths last year may take far longer. VA Secretary James Peake inspected the Marion VA hospital before heading a town hall meeting meant to assure the roughly 100 veterans and family members who turned out that the hospital and its new director a Navy veteran with 16 years of VA experience would make things right.
"We don't do public floggings," Peake said
The Associated Press: VA head: Surgeries at Illinois hospital months off
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