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Audit: DHS failed to account for all ventilators purchased during pandemic
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The Department of Health Services failed to account for all the ventilators it loaned out to hospitals and other entities during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also didn’t collect sufficient documentation for a grant program aimed at helping providers financially impacted by the crisis.