VA Seeks to Serve Female Veterans

In response, the VA's Veterans Health Administration (VHA) created a mini-residency program on women's health geared toward VHA clinicians who are caring for more female veterans. Since beginning in 2008, over 7,500 clinicians have attended mini-residency programs to integrate women's health care into their practice with the intent to expand health care services for female patients. Reaching Out VHA's initiatives to attract and retain female veterans as patients at VA health care centers include adding comprehensive primary care, gynecologic care, maternity benefits, infertility and adoption reimbursement services, mental health services and military sexual trauma counseling. In fiscal 2021, ownership of the Women's Health Transition Training program will transfer from the VHA to the Veterans Benefits Administration's Office of Transition and Economic Development, which will maintain collaboration with the VHA's Office of Women's Health Services and the Air Force's Women's Initiative Team to ensure the program stays on course as designed.