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Lynette Roff, right, announced this week that she is retiring as director of Denver s Veterans Affairs Hospital. (Andy Cross, Denver Post file)
Lynette Roff, right, announced this week that she is retiring as director of Denver s Veterans Affairs Hospital. (Andy Cross, Denver Post file)
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had nothing to do with that her office had kept a secret list of veterans awaiting appointments in a sleep clinic in 2012.

And no doubt Lynette Roff’s retirement also had nothing to do with the fact that Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, and Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, have called for an investigation by the VA’s Office of Inspector General.

And, naturally, Roff’s retirement couldn’t have had anything to do with the increasing scrutiny of her domain, either, as evidenced by . It said patients “wait longer for medical appointments than those at more than 90 percent of regional centers nationwide.”

But whether Roff is retiring in the natural course of events or under pressure, we agree with Coffman, who said, “She did the right thing by leaving.”

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