Loren Elliott
Veterans Without Assistance
Three Days of Tragedy: How a VA Clinic’s Inability to Help Veterans in Crisis Destroyed Two Families
Two veterans sought psychiatric care at a VA clinic in Chico, California. They were bounced between virtual providers and struggled to get support in the threadbare system. A staffer worried, “We are going to kill someone.” Then tragedy struck.
by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi, ProPublica, photography by Loren Elliott for ProPublica,