Whistleblower at New Hampshire VA hospital running for Congress
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — One of the doctors behind a whistleblower complaint about care at New Hampshire’s only veterans hospital is running for Congress in the 2018 race.
Dr. Stewart Levenson says he will seek the Republican nomination for the state’s Second Congressional District. The incumbent is Democrat Annie Kuster.
The 60-year-old Levenson, of Hopkinton, was chairman of the Department of Medicine at the VA Medical Center in Manchester. He was among a group of doctors in a Boston Globe report that highlighted allegations of substandard conditions and treatment at the hospital.
Levenson said just as President Donald Trump has shown, when political outsiders are elected to office, they are able to make tough decisions that partisan politicians won’t make.
Republican Jack Flanagan, a former state representative, is making a second bid for the seat.
A message seeking comment was left with a spokeswoman for Kuster.
