Women Veterans

VA encourages women Veterans who became overdue for screenings like mammograms, pap smears, colonoscopies, or any other preventative testing, to get those scheduled or rescheduled as soon as possible.

Women Veterans more than twice as likely to die by suicide compared to non-Veteran women. It’s more important than ever that providers talk with women Veterans and understand their unique suicide risks.

Celebrating Black Veteran Mothers: Black Maternal Health Week. Black women more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. VA covers full maternity care from the first positive pregnancy test.

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, VA is emphasizing its ongoing work to ensure that Veterans and their partners who are experiencing or engaging in IPV are provided with the necessary resources and services through VA’s Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program (IPVAP) and other programs.

Women surgeons make up 22 percent of all Denver VA surgeons, collectively providing care across 10 specialties for almost everything a Veteran patient would need from head to toe.

The National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs (NASDVA) hosted an hourlong listening session earlier this month. In attendance were 12 women serving as state directors, commissioners or executives, the highest number in the organization’s history.

I felt great pride when Secretary McDonough swore me in as VA chief of staff during this year’s Women’s History Month.

VA Connecticut decided to combine a VA Love-Your-Self Campaign with local providers Hartford Healthcare and Yale New Haven Health having their mobile mammography buses visit our facilities.

PTSD affects many areas of a woman’s life, including relationships, work, sleep and even reproductive health. Dr. Nillni’s research aims to understand the ways that trauma and PTSD impact women in their childbearing years, and especially during and right after pregnancy. Her research helps women get better care for PTSD during pregnancy, which benefits their families too.

Women’s History Month - VA celebrates valiant women Veterans of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Women have honorably served in the military for generations and continue to break barriers even today.

During Women’s History Month, I want to honor some of our nation’s heroes, who have too often gone unsung, uncelebrated: Our proud women Veterans. 

Air Force Veteran Irene Trowell-Harris is a woman Veteran author who wrote “Bridges: A Life Building and Crossing Them" about her life.