Maintaining a high state of medical readiness is indispensable to national security—and to the Military Health System’s (MHS) mission to provide vital combat support and peacetime services to 9.6 million warfighters, veterans, and their families.
When Congress enacted the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017, it mandated a new set of system reforms that will empower the MHS to better support its Quadruple Aim of improved readiness, better heath, better care, and lower cost. Beginning October 1, 2018, the director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) and a professional office will assume full responsibility for all medical treatment facility (MTF) operations, including budget, information technology, administration and management, policy and procedure, facilities, construction, and other matters.
