Women's Health Issues
Volume 17, Issue 6 , Pages 367-373 , November 2007

Where Do Women Veterans Get Their Inpatient Care?

  • Susan E. Mooney, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, White River Junction, Vermont
    • Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire
    • Susan E. Mooney, MD, MS, recently completed the VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship at the White River Junction VA Hospital. As an Obstetrician/Gynecologist, her interests focused on improving the quality of healthcare for female veterans. After completing the fellowship, Dr. Mooney returned to the private sector where she now practices Gynecology and serves as the Medical Director for Quality Improvement at a hospital in Lebanon, NH.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Sue Mooney, MD, MS, Women’s Care Center at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, 141 Mascoma Street, Lebanon, NH 03766. Phone: 603-448-3996; fax: 603-448-6863.
    • ,
  • William B. Weeks, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, White River Junction, Vermont
    • National Center for Patient Safety
    • VA Outcomes Group REAP, VAMC, White River Junction, Vermont
    • Departments of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire
    • William B. Weeks, MD, MBA, is affiliated with the Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group REAP, Veterans Affairs Hospital, White River Junction, Vermont and the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School. He is also the Director of the White River Junction, Vermont field office of VHA’s National Center for Patient Safety. His research interests include health economics, patient safety, rural veterans’ health care.

Received 9 January 2007 ,Accepted 30 August 2007.

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 The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or of the United States government.Supported by VA Health Services Research and Development Grants ACC 01-117-1, IIR 04–236, and REA 03-098.

PII: S1049-3867(07)00144-2

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.08.006

Women's Health Issues
Volume 17, Issue 6 , Pages 367-373 , November 2007

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