Keeping veterans beautiful

Photo courtesy of the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center  Maureen ‘Molly’ Boyle shows veteran Patricia Cepeda how wigs can be accented with stylish caps. Boyle, an orthotist, runs Your New Camouflage Boutique at the West Palm Beach Medical Center. It specializes in prosthesis and orthotic devices for women. It’s likely the first such service in the VA. It opened in 2012.

Photo courtesy of the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center
Maureen ‘Molly’ Boyle shows veteran Patricia Cepeda how wigs can be accented with stylish caps. Boyle, an orthotist, runs Your New Camouflage Boutique at the West Palm Beach Medical Center. It specializes in prosthesis and orthotic devices for women. It’s likely the first such service in the VA. It opened in 2012.

Patrick McCallister
For Veteran Voice
When a veteran needs a prosthesis or orthotic, beauty is important. Well, if the veteran is a woman, it is.
“The women right now are the fastest-growing group coming into the (Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers), and we want them to feel this is for them,” Maureen “Molly” Boyle, orthotist, said.
She runs Your New Camouflage Boutique at the West Palm Beach VA medical center. Boyle started at the VA about 12 years ago. During that time, there’s been a huge increase in the number of women veterans using the VA. And many had to visit the Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Services.
“The women started coming in and they would ask me to come with them in the room,” Boyle said. “It could have been something as simple as (getting fitted for) compression stockings.”
Pretty soon, they would start requesting and making the appointments with Molly.
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