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Defense Health Agency Director Promoted to Lieutenant General
The new Defense Health Agency director pinned on her third star during a ceremony at Fort Myer Memorial Chapel, Virginia, on Jan. 20, 2023.
We are committed to making it easy for you to find information on how the Military Health System (MHS) is performing. Here, you'll find data showing how our facilities score on industry standard measures for patient safety, health care outcomes, quality of care, and patient satisfaction and access to care. Search for your military treatment facility below to see how we're doing and how we measure our performance.
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We encourage our medical staffs to report all types of patient safety events – injuries, illnesses and especially deaths. Sentinel events are those that result in harm to a patient and that require immediate reporting, response and investigation. More reported events don’t necessarily mean more events have occurred. It could mean that more providers have reported events. This measure is a system-wide one that gives you a snapshot of what kind of sentinel events the entire system reported over the past five years.
We encourage our medical staffs to report all types of patient safety events – injuries, illnesses and especially deaths. Sentinel events are those that result in harm to a patient and that require immediate reporting, response and investigation. More reported events don’t necessarily mean more events have occurred. It could mean that more providers have reported events. We use this measure to see how many patient safety events are reported. This measure is a facility-specific one that shows you what sentinel events occurred in individual hospitals or clinics.
The purpose of the OASD/DHA TRICARE Inpatient Satisfaction Survey (TRISS) is to monitor and report on the experience and satisfaction of Military Health System's (MHS) beneficiaries that were admitted to MHS Direct Care (DC) military treatment facilities (MTFs) or its civilian network/Purchased Care (PC) civilian hospitals. The survey instrument incorporates the questions developed by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS) initiative.
This document is a machine readable spreadsheet of MHS Transparency Measures which have been moved into an Archived status, consolidated in a single data file.
This document is a machine readable spreadsheet of MHS Transparency Measures consolidated in a single data file.
You expect your hospital or clinic to provide quality care and so do we. That's why the MHS requires all of our military clinics and hospitals go through on-site surveys by nationally-recognized accreditation organizations every three years. This report will show you the accreditation status of your facility, which accreditation organization the facility used, and the date of the last survey.
Seeing your provider in a timely manner is important to you – and to us. Our goal is to ensure you receive the right level of care, at the right time, by the right provider. This measure is used across the health care industry and lets us know if we are meeting our access to care standards. The MHS access to care standard for patients to receive an acute appointment is within 24 hours (1 day) and a routine appointment within 7 days. If the military hospital or clinic cannot meet these standards with a patient's primary care manager, the facility will schedule an appointment with another provider.access to care standards. If the military hospital or clinic can't get you an appointment with your Primary Care Manager within the standards, they will get you an appointment with another provider. We monitor this metric on a monthly basis and make more appointments available when the measure shows we need to. This measure looks at acute and routine primary care appointments.
A catheter is a drainage tube that is inserted by a doctor into a patient’s urinary bladder through the urethra and is left in place to collect urine while a patient is immobile or incontinent. When not put in correctly or kept clean, or if left in place for long periods of time, catheters can become an easy way for germs to enter the body and cause serious infections in the urinary tract. These infections are called catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), and they can cause additional illness or be deadly. We track the number of infections developed by patients in the ICU because of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. We look at the number of infections compared to the number of expected infections based on the number of patients who had catheters during the time frame being measured.
When your provider team is familiar with your medical history, it is good for you, especially if you have more complex medical issues. Our Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) help you see the same provider team. Your PCMH team will work to keep you healthy by suggesting preventive services that may prevent more complex problems later. We track this measure to find out how often you are seen by the same medical team. We use our electronic health record to monitor which provider you see. We understand that there may be times when you want to be seen quickly – and don’t need to see your primary care manager. But we want to ensure you are seen by your primary medical team when you want.
When you are having a baby, it is important that you have confidence in the hospital you are considering for delivery. Hospitals that have fewer deliveries are okay for uncomplicated pregnancies. Hospitals that deliver more babies are often better for complicated pregnancies. We count and report the number of babies delivered in our military hospitals both by cesarean or normal delivery.
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a tool used by more than 90% of America's health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. There are many HEDIS scores covering a variety of quality indicators. The Military Health System uses a set group of of these indicators to measure performance. This report shows the most common HEDIS scores and includes: well-child visits, breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, lower back pain, upper respiratory infection, phayrngitis pain, testing for diabetes, and follow-up after hospitalization for mental health. HEDIS is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
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