“Since 2001, the military medical establishment has learned much about caring for trauma.”
“Many American service members alive today who have fought since 9/11 would have died in previous wars. Thousands more have benefitted from state-of-the-art care and the experience that military medical providers have learned in 18 years of war.”
“The lessons of the battlefield were learned through experience and repetition, and the Department of Defense and Congress want to ensure those lessons are not forgotten…”
“Management of the military treatment facilities will transition from the services to the Defense Health Agency. The agency will focus on providing high-quality care for beneficiaries, enabling the services to focus entirely on medical readiness for the wartime fight.”
“The military treatment facilities will move to the agency over a three-year period. Officials will be able to examine the changes, assess how the transition is working and make changes as needed, Daigle said. Currently, the facilities at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jacksonville, Florida, and Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, come under the DHA. This transitions more than 1,000 headquarters’ medical staff from the services to the agency…” Read the full article here.
Source: Health care transition looks to improve processes for wartime missions, beneficiaries – By Jim Garamone, April 10, 2019. US Air Force.
