PHOENIX (AP) — Three executives of the veterans hospital in Phoenix have been placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into allegations of corruption and unnecessary deaths at the facility, officials announced Thursday. U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki said Phoenix VA Health Care System Director Sharon Helman and associate director Lance Robinson would be placed on leave "until further notice." Earlier Thursday, before the announcement that she would be placed on leave, Helman and the hospital's chief of staff denied any knowledge of a secret list and said they had found no evidence of patient deaths due to delayed care. [...] the nation's head of veteran health services told a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday in Washington that a preliminary review found no evidence to support the allegations leveled against the Phoenix hospital system and its leadership.
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