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BVA commends the VA on its progress in establishing
gender specific services for our nation's female veterans. Although
there is much work to accomplish, dramatic progress has been made
to provide essential services to women who have served America
as faithfully as their male counterparts. BVA believes that female
veterans have greater access to VA medical care facilities, and
that there is a great opportunity for women who are experiencing
vision loss to access the valuable services available to help
overcome this devastating disability. In the past, when a female
veteran applied for service, she was almost always contracted
and did not have the opportunity to be referred to the VIST Coordinator.
Hopefully that trend will be substantially reduced and the Women's
Coordinator can work closely with the VIST Coordinators to insure
that eligible female veterans can and do receive these vital services.
BVA also commends VA for its leadership role
in co-hosting the second major female veteran’s summit last
June. We believe this will further focus appropriate attention
on the contributions of women who have served honorably in the
military and on delivery of essential services that these veterans
so richly deserve.
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