VA Health Care for Women
Despite Progress, Improvements Needed Gao ID: T-HRD-92-42 June 19, 1992During the past decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made significant progress in ensuring that female veterans have the same access to health care as do male veterans. Problems remain, however. Physical examinations, including cancer screening for women veterans, remain sporadic. VA medical centers are not adequately monitoring their in-house mammography programs for adherence to quality standards. VA medical centers have inadequate procedures to help ensure that privacy limitations affecting women patients are identified and corrected during facility renovations. VA agrees with GAO's findings and has cited specific actions it plans to take to improve services for women veterans.