{"id":16486,"date":"2020-07-21T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16486"},"modified":"2020-07-21T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:58:59","slug":"the-vas-womens-health-transition-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16486","title":{"rendered":"The VA&#8217;s  Women&#8217;s Health Transition Training Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women are the fastest-growing segment of veterans with 20,000 of them transitioning out of the military just last year. However, compared to men, they are much less likely to get their healthcare through Department of Veterans Affairs even though women face greater health-related challenges after military service compared to their male counterparts. Why? According to Nancy Maher, \u201cWomen do think that the VA is only for men and they don\u2019t think that VA is a quality place to get care.\u201d The attached article highlights a new pilot program aimed at women. Read article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2020\/jul\/20\/va-hoping-build-awareness-and-trust-among-female-v\/\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8765\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women are the fastest-growing segment of veterans with 20,000 of them transitioning out of the military just last year. However,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16487,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486\/revisions\/16487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}