Pa. Senate Approves Task Force to Study Health Care for Female Veterans

Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Category: Health Care - Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania Senate resolution was recently approved to stand up a task force of cabinet-level secretaries, health care experts, and four female military veterans who would focus on the health care needs of their state's 72,000 women veterans. The panel will review how female veterans receive health care, especially for post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, or sexual assault or abuse. The impetus for the review was the expected rise in number of women serving in the military, opening up combat positions, and a need to pay more attention to women's health issues. The task force is expected to meet five times and prepare recommendations by the close of 2016.

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