deborah ander is retiring after less than a year on the job. meanwhile employees are saying while wait times are veterans have improved there are systemic deborah ander recently announced she is retiring for personal health reasons. this amid reports that long waits and scheduling manipulations persist. >> this job has nearly killed her. with deb after the first time she landed in the hospital. i didn't even find out about the second time she landed in the hospital. and if some jerk wants to assert that something that happened with her retirement, they are full of crap. >> the v.a. deputy secretary getting defensive when questioned about ander's short term in phoenix. he praised her work saying she has created more transparency within the hospital and reduced wait time for veterans. ander is credited with hiring more than 750 new employees expanding the hospital and streamlining emergency care. but employees say the hospital is severely understaffed and the scheduling system has not of patients in a lot of different areas and a lot of it has to