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National Training Summit on Women Veterans: VA Secretary Remarks (July 16, 2011)
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VA Secretary Shinseki opened the 2011 VA National Training Summit on Women Veterans in Washington D.C. on July 16, 2011. He commented on the history of women in the military and present day challenges and the need to transform VA health care to meet the needs of all veterans. He announced the 'creation of a VA Task Force on Women Veterans, to be chaired by my chief of staff, who will report directly to me. Its near-term mission is to develop—in coordination with VA's Advisory Committee on Women Veterans, and in conjunction with DoD—a comprehensive VA action plan that will focus on key issues facing women Veterans and the specific actions needed to resolve them, to include Ob/Gyn, childcare, MST, homelessness, aging, end-of-life issues, among others...due to me on 1 January 2012, and it will set our course for the next four years in everything we do, from planning, to programming, to budgeting, to education and training.'
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