“In October, the Defense Health Agency will begin assuming control of every military medical treatment facility, moving them away from the individual services that managed them in the past. The Transitional Intermediate Management Organization oversees migrating the first five hospitals over to DHA. After the first five are moved in October, DHA hopes to have every military hospital facility under the agency 12 months after. Maj. Gen. Ronald Place, TIMO director and director of the National Capital Region Medical Directorate at DHA, says that the timeline is progressing well.”
“The National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 required this change in the hierarchy, and requires them to report to Congress. Place told Government Matters that this relationship with Congress is…” Read the full article here.
Source: Transition of all military hospitals to Defense Health Agency – By Andrew Wagner, August 5, 2018. Govmatters.
