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Military Hospitals and Clinics

Military hospitals and clinics are the core of the Military Health System. They are located on military bases and posts around the world. Military hospitals and clinics are also referred to as Direct CareDirect care refers to military hospitals and clinics, also known as “military treatment facilities” and “MTFs.”direct care, military treatment facilities or MTFs.

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Changes to military health care system aimed at readiness

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12/6/2019
Speaking before the House Armed Services subcommittee on personnel during a Dec. 5 hearing on Capitol Hill, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffrey (left), Army Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Ronald Place (second from left), director of the DHA, the service Surgeons General, and Joint Staff Surgeon outlined the necessity for the health care system to change in order to support warfighter readiness. (MHS photo)

Merger of all hospitals and clinics to DHA a key step

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Keesler renovates cardiac cath lab to provide better, safer care

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12/5/2019
Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Slaven (right), 81st Medical Operations Squadron cardiopulmonary technician, briefs 81st Medical Group staff and guests on cath lab capabilities during the cardiac catheterization laboratory ribbon cutting ceremony inside Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. The lab was upgraded with an entire suite of technology to provide better and safer care for patients and the surgical team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Suzie Plotnikov)

The clinic also has a joint DoD – VA partnership

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Military hospital transformation – introducing the market construct

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12/5/2019
Barclay Butler, Ph.D., MBA, assistant director of management at DHA, explains the market concept to an audience of active-duty and civilian conference attendees at the 2019 AMSUS Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, Dec. 4. (Photo by MHS Communications)

Markets will manage hospital and clinic needs within a geographic region

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Tri-Service surgeons perform the first surgeries at new hospital

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12/3/2019
The Army, Navy and Air Force surgeons and physician assistant met with the hospital command team. (Left to right) Army Col. Alfonso Alarcon, orthopedic surgeon at BDAACH; Army Maj. Harry Aubin, general surgeon at BDAACH; Army Command Sgt. Maj. Nicole Haines, the hospital senior enlisted advisor; Air Force Capt. Christopher Ng, Air Force general surgeon with 51st MDG; Army Maj. Eric de la Cruz, chief of general surgery at BDAACH; Navy Lt. Cmdr. Paul Lewis and Lt. Cmdr. Dan Sanford, general surgeons with 3rd Medical Battalion; Army Maj. John Fletcher, general surgeon at BDAACH; Army Col. Andrew L. Landers, hospital commander, and Air Force Capt. Steven Maya, physician assistant with 51st MDG. (U.S. Army photo by Inkyeong Yun)

This event showcased the collaboration amongst the tri-service general surgeons

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NMCP hosts ‘The Future of Military Medicine’ discussion panel

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12/3/2019
Navy Capt. Joel Schofer, deputy chief of the Medical Corps at the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, talks about the Defense Health Agency transition during Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s Future of Military Medicine panel. The panel participants were (left to right) Schofer, deputy chief of the Medical Corps at the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Capt. Lisa Mulligan, NMCP’s commanding officer and Capt. Guido Valdes, Navy Medicine East deputy commander (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Imani N. Daniels)

The readiness of the Navy Medicine team is paramount to combat survival in the future

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Keesler Medical Center receives national recognition

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11/27/2019
Keesler was one of 56 participating hospitals to be recognized in both patient care categories – all patients and high risk patients. (U.S. Air Force photo)

The ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program recognized Keesler Medical Center

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Award-winning Navy team successfully improves care for women, infants

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11/26/2019
Labor and Delivery providers were the front-line adopters of the Induction of Labor care pathway at Naval Medical Center San Diego. As of July 2019, over 80 percent of the hospital’s providers were using the pathway. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joseph A. Boomhower)

An award-winning team of nurses successfully implemented a treatment guide at Naval Medical Center San Diego that improves labor and delivery outcomes

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Ft. Bliss Hospital Replacement

Congressional Testimony
11/22/2019

H.R. 2998 HAC Milcon for FY 2018 115-188 Pg. 27-28

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Improvement of Administration of DHA And MTFs

Congressional Testimony
11/21/2019

H.R. 5516, NDAA for FY 2019, Section 711(c) (Defense Health Command)

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Lending a helping, healing hand

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11/20/2019
Navy Capt. Johannes Bailey, Naval Hospital Bremerton Director for Nursing Services (left) and Navy Lt. Kaitlyn Harmon, NHB Multi Service Unit (right), flank Army 1st Lt. Lauren Odegaard, from Madigan Army Medical Center, for a photo op after thanking her for her assistance. Odegaard provided assistance for the month of October in NHB's MSU to help with staffing shortages. (U.S. Navy photo by Douglas H. Stutz)

Army nurse supports Navy hospital

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Artificial intelligence makes its way to dermatology clinic

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11/18/2019
Air Force Maj. Thomas Beachkofsky, 6th Health Care Operations Squadron dermatologist, uses a body scanner microscope to take a picture of a spot on his arm at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. A new software upgrade allows a complex algorithm to analyze an image captured with a camera and rate the severity of the spot for a dermatologist to review. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Adam R. Shanks)

The software was able to correctly identify 95% of malignant skin tumors

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Nellis medical center celebrates 25 years

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11/13/2019
Air Force Col. Alfred Flowers, 99th Medical Group commander, and Army Staff Sgt. Michael O’Callaghan, (grandson of the former Gov. O’Callaghan) reveal a portrait of O’Callaghan during a ceremony celebrating the Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center’s 25th Anniversary on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Nov. 12, 2019. The portrait will hang in the MOMMC to honor the center's namesake. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kevin Tanenbaum)

The Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center celebrated 25 years of operation Nov. 12

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Womack Army Medical Center named Level III trauma center

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11/12/2019
Local medical partners conduct a 'trace the trauma' tour Nov. 6 after Womack Army Medical Center celebrated their integration into the North Carolina American College of Surgeons Level III Trauma designation. (U.S. Army photo by Twana Atkinson)

Trauma is the leading cause of death for Americans age 45 and younger

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Air Force transitions all U.S. military treatment facilities to DHA administration, management

Article
10/31/2019
This October, U.S.-based Air Force military treatment facilities transferred administration and management to the Defense Health Agency. (U.S. Air Force illustration)

Congress directed this transfer in the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act

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Joint Army-Air Force-Navy medical partnership saves lives downrange

Article
10/29/2019
Airmen work with members of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation team to save the life of a NATO troop at the Craig Joint-Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Rau)

More than 100 medics from the 59th Medical Wing deployed

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