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Cancer care coordinators and nurse navigators help patients ‘through their treatment journey, from diagnosis into survivorship’
Defense Health Agency nurse navigators and care coordinators are a vital part of a cancer patient’s healthcare team, helping them navigate the numerous appointments, specialists, tests, and decisions. Navigators and coordinators ensure patients receive timely care, support their recovery journey, and keep active duty patients connected with their clinical teams and commands.
DEERS System Outage, Oct. 9-11
During this time, beneficiaries may be unable to update contact information, verify eligibility, or complete enrollment actions. Access to TRICARE and other DOD benefit systems that rely on DEERS may also be temporarily affected.
Promoting brain health enables our effectiveness as a fighting force operationally. Mitigating the impact of traumatic brain injury, in all its forms, is a top priority for DOD as we focus on the near and long-term health of our service members. Warfighter brain health represents the physical, psychological, and cognitive status that affect a warfighter’s capacity to function adaptively in any environment and impacts readiness, operational capability, and mission effectiveness.
The Warfighter Brain Health Initiative focuses on cognitive and physical performance, identification of known and emerging brain threats in military environments, and methods to immediately detect and treat brain injury.
Learn more about these brain health topics:
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