Women Veterans Services - Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System
The Minneapolis Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center (WVCHC) is an interdisciplinary clinic designed to provide collaborative and comprehensive care for women veterans. Women Veterans Call Center: Provides women veterans, their families, and caregivers about VA services and resources. Call, chat, or text is available. Primary care includes: - Health evaluation and counseling, disease prevention, nutrition counseling, weight control, smoking cessation, and substance abuse counseling and treatment as well as gender-specific primary care, e.g., cervical cancer screens (pap smears), breast cancer screens (mammograms), birth control, preconception counseling, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, menopausal support (hormone replacement therapy). - Mental health includes evaluation and assistance for issues such as depression, mood, and anxiety disorders; intimate partner and domestic violence; sexual trauma; elder abuse or neglect; parenting and anger management; marital, caregiver, or family-related stress; and post-deployment adjustment or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). - Military Sexual Trauma (MST). Women-and men as well-may experience repeated sexual harassment or sexual assault during their military service. Special services are available to women who have experienced MST. VA provides free, confidential counseling, and treatment for mental and physical health conditions related to MST. Specialty Care includes: - Management and screening of chronic conditions includes heart disease, diabetes, cancer, glandular disorders, osteoporosis, and fibromyalgia as well as sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. - Reproductive health care includes maternity care, infertility evaluation, and limited treatment; sexual problems, tubal ligation, urinary incontinence, and others. VA is prohibited by legislative authority from providing abortion services. - Rehabilitation, homebound, and long-term care. VA referrals are given to those in need of rehabilitation therapies such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, exercise therapy, recreational therapy, and vocational therapy. Homebound and long-term care services are available as well, limited to those meeting specific requirements. Programs for Special Groups include: Special programs provide services for homeless women veterans, victims of domestic violence, and women veterans interested in education and training, employment assistance, and vocational rehabilitation.
Categories
Last assured
04/26/2024
Physical Address
One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417
Hours
Women Veterans Call Center (Phone/Chat/Text): 7 am - 9 pm Monday - Friday; 7 am - 5:30 pm Saturday
Voice
Application process
- Call; text - Chat: Visit: www.womenshealth.va.gov/programoverview/wvcc.asp and click on 'Click here to chat online with the Women Veterans Call Center' icon
Fee
Vary
Required documents
Application/intake form; health insurance card; Medical Assistance/Medicaid (MA) card; photo ID
Eligibility
- Call Center: Open to all women veterans or anyone with questions about services and benefits available to women veterans; not required to be registered with the VA or enrolled in VA health care - Women may be considered a veteran if she has served on active duty in the armed forces and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable; do not need to have wartime or combat experience to be considered a veteran
Service area
MN
Agency info
Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System
Administered by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs