Still much much more needed and not only related to just the women veterans. A decade now of no sacrifice by the country, and until this administration, still underfunded agency but getting help from, not much help for the VA from the previous as they waged two more wars of choice, while the same politics from that previous in congress lay blame on the VA and not themselves for not doing what they should have been doing, added to the previous decades of not only not fully funding but ignoring returning veterans so the country wouldn't have to, as they cheer of the start of new wars of choice and the ever growing defense budgets!
Jun 10, 2012 - At the opening of a new women’s clinic in the Durham VA Medical Center in 1995, hospital officials planted a Leyland cypress sapling not 5 feet tall.
It marked both the outside door to the clinic, where female veterans could enter the building without threading through waiting areas full of men, and, symbolically, a new era in the way the government planned to care for women who had served in its armed forces.
The tree is now 30 feet tall and crowding the door. Like the population of women the VA seeks to serve, it has grown much faster and bigger than expected.
By the end of April, the Durham VA and its clinics in Raleigh, Greenville and Morehead City had seen 4,220 women this year, a 22 percent increase over the same time in 2010.
Three other VA medical centers serve the rest of the state. Throughout the system, the number of women using VA medical care has increased 83 percent between fiscal years 2000 and 2009, from 160,000 women to 292,000. Over the same period, men’s use of the VA increased by 50 percent. read more>>>
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