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Women Veterans Health Care (2013 American Legion Report)
Category: Health Care
The objectives of the final report were to understand what perceptions and barriers prevent women veterans from enrolling in VA, determine what quality-of-care challenges women veterans face with their VA health care, and provide recommendations and steps VA can take to improve these access barriers and quality-of-care challenges.
Challenges:
Women don't identify themselves as veterans and are not familiar with VA benefits and the eligibility process to receiving their VA health care.
VA medical centers do not currently have baseline, one-, two- or five-year outreach and marketing
plans on how to close the gap between the numbers of women veterans in their facility catchment areas and those enrolled.
There is a need to increase the number of inpatient mental health treatment programs (e.g. military sexual trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, etc.) for women veterans and ensure these programs are available within each Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) and at VA medical centers with a high demand for women veterans specialized inpatient mental health-care services.
More analysis is needed on VA's three different models of women care to determine overall outreach, communication and coordination of women veterans health services.
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