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9 Military Hospitals Receive Highest Leapfrog Grade for Safe, High-Quality Care
Defense Health Agency is the first federal health system to participate in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program—receiving an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for nine military hospitals and clinics.
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The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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Uniformed Services University researchers have developed a potential cure for rabies infection, offering hope for an effective treatment for human rabies.
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An Air Force physician with over 30 years of service became the first director of the newly designated Defense Health Network Central, the military’s largest medical network, on Oct. 1.
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE has expanded the number of New York counties and extended the date in which beneficiaries may receive emergency prescription refills due to flooding.
To enhance exposure-related care for service members, veterans and other beneficiaries, the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs created the Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record in 2019.
U.S. Navy Lt. Nathan Henderson, an assistant public works officer serving Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington at Naval Support Activity South Potomac, survived sudden kidney failure thanks to his faith, family, fellow sailors, and an old friend.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be conducting a nationwide alert test at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. This test will be directed to all consumer cell phones, radios, and televisions.
On September 21, 1947, a man was admitted to the Al-Qurayn (El Korein) Hospital in Egypt vomiting profusely and suffering severe diarrhea. Within hours, he was dead. The attending physician on duty first suspected food poisoning before 11 additional patients were admitted with identical symptoms. Their diagnosis was cholera, a deadly bacterial disease that can result in death within hours if not treated. As this public health threat was rapidly developing into a crisis, U.S. Navy physician Cmdr. Robert Phillips was settling in as the new commanding officer of the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 at the Abbassia Fever Hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Over three months, cholera spread across 2,270 towns and villages in Egypt killing over half of its victims. According to one estimate over 20,000 Egyptians died of cholera. (Graphic by Andre Sobocinski)
Medical logistics, or “beans, bullets, and bandages", supports warfighter readiness and beneficiary health.
The Defense Health Agency’s Defense Medical Modeling & Simulation Office provided subject matter experts to support Exercise Northern Strike 2023, which took place at multiple training areas throughout Michigan, Aug. 12-15, involving more than 7,000 participants from 25 states, one territory, and four international partners.
There are nearly 2,000 eye injuries occurring in the U.S. each day, and almost all these injuries can be prevented, according to the Defense Health Agency’s Vision Center of Excellence.
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in 14 counties in New Jersey may receive emergency prescription refills now through Oct. 10, 2023, due to flooding.
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in two counties and four boroughs in New York may receive emergency prescription refills now through Oct. 9, 2023, due to flooding.
While numerous programs work to develop strategies to lessen the national suicide rate, a standout in the military community is the Suicide Care, Prevention, and Research Initiative at the Uniformed Services University.
Unfortunate weather didn’t stop the Sept. 23, 2023, Teddy Bear Clinic at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. After an absence of the event due to COVID-19, children once again donned lab coats and guided their stuffed animal "patients" to several stations to learn about healthy habits and the body.
Complete and timely reporting of notifiable medical conditions among the Department of Defense beneficiary population is important for the control of communicable and preventable diseases and injuries.
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