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The Roseburg Veterans Administration Medical Center saw its ratings dramatically improve under Douglas Paxton. But doctors said that was driven largely by strategic tweaks to health care practices to boost performance measures, even when they left veterans worse off. Meanwhile, Wisconsin is setting up an alert system to locate at-risk, missing veterans.