“As envisioned and directed by Congress two years ago, this was to be the month that the five-year-old Defense Health Agency (DHA) assumed management for all Army, Navy and Air Force health-care facilities, which includes 59 hospitals and 360 clinics across the nation and at U.S. bases overseas.”
“The restructuring of the military health system, arguably the largest ever undertaken, is proceeding. This month, hospitals and clinics at Fort Bragg, N.C.; Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla.; Keesler AFB, Miss.; Joint Base Charleston, S.C.; and Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., came under DHA control…”
“The Defense Department in June rolled out a final implementation plan for sweeping health system reforms lawmakers directed in the fiscal 2017 defense authorization act. The revised plan described recent steps by the department to modernize governance of the health system. It also urged a more gradual phase-in for streamlining and standardizing of health care delivery under DHA…” Read the full article here.
Source: Restructuring of military health system slows to reduce readiness risk – By Tom Philpott, October 26, 2018. Daily Press.
