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MilitaryTimes: New in 2020: Military health system will expand takeover of local treatment facilities

“The Defense Health Agency in 2020 will continue its expansive takeover of military hospitals and clinics, an effort jump-started in 2017 to standardize management and administration of the military health system.”

“The plan initially was to take four years. But in June, DHA officials shortened the timeline “to reduce the amount of duplicative management” by the services and DHA. In October, DHA added all military treatment facilities in the continental United States to the eight it had been overseeing since 2018…”

“In 2020, DHA will continue its reforms. Plans are underway to establish 21 “markets” to…” Read the full article here.

Source: New in 2020: Military health system will expand takeover of local treatment facilities – By Patricia Kime, December 27, 2019. MilitaryTimes.

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Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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