SEMINOLE, Fla. – Staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in the Tampa Bay area left a body in a shower for nine hours after a veteran died and proper pickup procedures to the morgue weren't followed.

The Tampa Bay Times on Sunday reported that an internal investigation concluded that staff at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System failed to provide appropriate post-mortem care to the veteran's body.

The investigation said that leaving the body unattended for so long increased the chance of decomposition.

The veteran, whose name has not been released, died in February after spending time in hospice care.

The hospital's Administrative Investigation Board ordered retraining for staff.

Hospital spokesman Jason Dangel said hospital officials view what happened as unacceptable.said. “The gravel scene is just booming, and it gave me confidence the time is right.”

There’s that same sense of newness, adventure, and possibility in gravel right now that anyone around in the late 1980s and early 1990s experienced in mountain biking. Now it’s gravel that everyone is talking about. And, perhaps more importantly, what everyone is doing.

After watching from the sidelines, Stetina wanted in. So this summer, he dove in with both feet, racing a parallel calendar to his full-time commitments at Trek-Segafredo. He still notched 79 days race days on the WorldTour — high by today’s standards — racing from January at the Santos Tour Down Under to October at the Gree-Tour of Guangxi. In between there were two monuments (Liège and Lombardia), the Dauphiné and