Congress OKs Funding to Fill Gap in Women Vets’ Care With Mobile Clinic

Date Posted: Monday, May 23, 2016

Category: Health Care - National

Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota stated that currently the VA medical centers nationwide do not have the infrastructure to provide gender-specific services such as mammograms, ultrasounds, and OB/GYN services. Proposed 2017 VA appropriations are $74.9 billion, an increase of $3.2 billlion. Within this bill is language that "presses the VA to improve health care for female veterans by considering the launch of a mobile health care pilot program," in part an outcome of the Congressionally-commissioned study on barriers to women veterans using in the VA health care system. One study finding was that "72 percent of the female vets don’t use their nearest VA facility for primary care because it lacked women’s health services." The study is linked in the article.

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