MIAMI - The top Veterans Affairs official in Miami said yesterday that she has taken steps locally to prevent the kind of problems that exposed patients to contaminated medical equipment at VA hospitals in three states.
Mary D. Berrocal, director of the Miami VA Healthcare System, said she has hired someone in Miami to supervise training, make sure biomedical equipment works properly there, and ensure the problems aren't repeated.
But she declined to discuss specifics about the contamination problems or say how they went undetected for so long.
