The VA Women’s Health Reengagement Training (heaRT) Team is on a mission to share information on VA’s women’s health services. VA Women’s heaRT discusses how to apply for and use VA health care to educate women Veterans on the care they earned and deserve. Here are five things you need to know about the training.
All women Veterans are welcome
All women Veterans, including women not enrolled in VA health care and women Veterans enrolled in VA health care but interested in learning more, are welcome to attend a VA Women’s heaRT session. No matter where you are on your VA health care journey, you will leave the VA Women’s heaRT session confident in your abilities to use your VA health care benefits. VA benefits can be used in addition to private insurance, TRICARE and Medicare.
VA Women’s heaRT is a necessary training for all women Veterans
Women Veterans are the fastest-growing Veteran population and are projected to account for 2.2 million members of the Veteran population by 2026. Currently, only 44% of women Veterans are enrolled in VA health care, which is 8% lower than male Veterans. Women Veterans have unique physical, mental and spiritual needs, which can be met through VA health care. Attending VA Women’s heaRT gives women Veterans the tools to navigate VA health care and seek support for their specific health care needs.
Women Veterans will Leave VA Women’s heaRT with the skills to navigate VA health care
Through this one-time training session, women Veterans will learn how VA is structured, what women- and Veteran-specific health care services are available to them, and how to enroll. Each training session includes women Veterans who use VA health care, and in most cases, a Women Veteran Program Manager (WVPM) who can answer questions about how to seek specific services. The resources and women Veteran support doesn’t stop at the end of the training; all participants leave the training session with the knowledge of how to contact their local WVPM and with a handbook that help’s them enroll in and navigate VA care.
VA Women’s heaRT is a safe community space for women Veterans
This women-only training prioritizes establishing a space where women can have personal conversations and connect over shared experiences. Participants are encouraged to share their thoughts and perspectives about their time in the military and to seek health care after transitioning. Fellow participants have shared that the training was “So informative. It was good to be with other women who served and understand the nuances of the military.”
Register for a training session on the VA Women’s HeaRT website today
The VA Women’s heaRT program offers virtual and in-person training sessions. Forty sessions will be offered virtually and can be accessed from anywhere in the country. Five sessions will be offered in-person, with locations across the country, including San Antonio, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Nashville, Tennessee; Sacramento, California; and Seattle, Washington. Training sessions are provided at many dates and times to accommodate various time zones and personal schedules.
Visit the VA Women’s heaRT Website to register for a training session today.
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I must be in the minority here, but I have had nothing but the best of experiences and care from both the Phoenix, AZ VA (7 years) and now the Prescott, Arizona VA (17 years). I have been blessed by female PAs in both locations, except for about 1 year with a male MD. I very recently switched to a women’s team as my PA left for another position, and so far, it has been a good outcome. I do hope other women veterans will find the VA team that will empower them and care for them as they are entitled to. No one should have to settle for 2nd or 3rd class care.
I have too ASK for tests! Do I need this, or this or this test and so on!! Thinking about switching doctors but that might be the same kind of treatment. I could go on and on.
What a joke
I have been active duty, reserve, national guard for 42 years. I have served in combat arms units, special ops unit, and in a regional reserve command. it’s my level observations that just as many women health service providers (as well as every other duty mos/position) are power mongers or judgemental, biased and/or abusive, as males. The only experience I’ve tried with VA services was handled 90% by women, and was a disaster of biblical scale. I have yet to find a way to engage with VA services, which I have earned, based on this experience. I would gladly share what should have been reported to a member of Congress or Senate, but in my state, there’s no one to trust there either.
The issue with heath care for women is when some VA clinics just shove all women into the womens clinic and then basically only want to see them for pap smears & such cause well the docs on the teams that see the men say that they don’t know how to treat females … BS they are docs so do your damn job and treat females.
Most female veterans tho want a woman for pap smears and breast exams. I know I do as do the many women who called into the telephonic meeting last year.