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DHA priorities focused on readiness, patients, outcomes

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10/7/2020
Defense Health Agency Director Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place speaks at a podium.

Adaptation key to providing outstanding care to beneficiaries.

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McCaffery offers MHS view with Blue Star Families panel

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2/28/2020
Thomas McCaffery (center) participated in the Blue Star Families Panel at American Red Cross National Headquarters Feb. 26. He is seen here with Amy Goyer (left), family and caregiving expert at AARP, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Patty Horoho (right), CEO of OptumServe. The panel discussed timely, quality health care for service members and their families. (Photo by MHS Communications)

The Honorable Thomas McCaffery participated in the Blue Star Families panel to discuss MHS transformation for families

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Health care transition looks to improve processes for wartime missions, beneficiaries

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4/11/2019
Defense Health Agency seal

Our No. 1 priority is to maintain the quality of care for both the wartime mission and the beneficiary population

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Patient care will remain steadfast despite staff cuts, DHA director says

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4/5/2019
Navy Hospitalman Yesenia Macedo, a sailor participating in Navy Medicine’s hospital corpsman trauma training, takes a patient’s temperature at University of Florida Health Jacksonville’s emergency room in Jacksonville, Fla., March 22, 2019. Sixteen hospital corpsmen from across the Navy received two weeks of specialized training at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, followed by five weeks at UF Health Jacksonville, a Level I trauma center. Navy photo by Jacob Sippel

With proposed military medical staffing reductions, the Defense Health Agency is taking steps to ensure access to care and availability of health services remain constant for Military Health System beneficiaries.

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Transformation underway across the Military Health System

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1/29/2019
Thomas McCaffery, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, with Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director, Defense Health Agency, celebrated the Defense Health Agency's fifth anniversary on Oct. 1, 2018, by welcoming the first military hospitals and clinics transitioning to the DHA. This was first step for the MHS to emerge as a more integrated and efficient system of health and readiness. (MHS photo by Military Heath System Strategic Communications Division)

All of these changes – the Military Health System transformation, MHS GENESIS, TRICARE enhancements – are aimed at taking the DoD’s health enterprise to the next level

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