VA provides training on women’s health topics to over 500 rural providers and nurses. Program aims to increase skills related to women’s health. VA is supporting women Veterans in rural communities.
In 2015, VA launched the Technology-based Eye Care Services program. It now serves 22 sites, and researchers are helping to ensure optimal effectiveness.
VA’s Office of Rural Health operates field-based Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers to identify solutions that bring care to where it’s needed most.
VA and SAMHSA host Rural Health Conference to Prevent Veteran Suicide on April 16–17 in Washington, D.C.
PTSD spares no neighborhoods. Veterans with PTSD who live in rural areas need access to care too and VA’s Office of Rural Health is conducting a pilot program to provide access to that care.





