At $1B over budget, Aurora VA hospital execs to depart

The Department of Veterans Affairs hospital being built in Aurora, Colo., is now expected to cost $1.7 billion, about three times its original budget. The cost overruns have led former hospital executives to retire, according to The Fiscal Times.

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One of the hospital officials was about to be dismissed and another was under investigation, according to the Deputy Secretary of the VA. Both officials retired before the agency could take any action against them.

Since their departure, everyone involved in the cost overruns has left the VA, according to the report.

The new medical facility is expected to open in early 2018.

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