By Trisha Volpe and MPR News
Trista Matascastillo remembers arriving at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center in 2010 for an exam and thinking the hospital didn’t quite get the needs of female veterans.
The exam room, for instance, opened onto the patient waiting area, she said. She had to ask that the door be closed.
It was a tiny detail, one Matascastillo said staff fixed quickly. But the 16-year veteran keeps the story close by now that she is part of an effort to help the center improve care for women.
“Our biological needs are different. Our health care needs are different. Our mental health care needs are different and so systems designed for men, we don’t fit into,” said 
Matascastillo, head of the Minneapolis VA Women’s Initiative. While improved, the system still falls short, she added.
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