Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki ordered a high-level, quality-management team to assess problems at a troubled Veterans Affairs hospital in Southern Illinois, lawmakers said. Mr. Shinseki met with members of the state’s Congressional delegation and Gov. Patrick J. Quinn two days after the Veterans Affairs inspector general issued a report outlining serious problems at the Marion V.A. Medical Center, where major surgeries were halted in 2007 because of a spike in deaths. A review of the hospital found inconsistencies with reporting deaths and problems with patient safety, including surgeons performing procedures they were not authorized to do. The hospital has been under scrutiny since 2007, when a former surgeon resigned three days after a patient bled to death after gall bladder surgery. The administration found that at least nine deaths between October 2006 and March 2007 resulted from substandard care at the hospital.