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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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Second Lt. Theresa Jacobs-Bruner (left), 99th Inpatient Operations Squadron labor and delivery nurse, and Senior Airman Kayla Mills (center), 99th IPTS labor and delivery technician, brief Maj. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, U.S. Air Force director of medical operations and research and chief of the nurse corps, on the operations and capabilities of the labor and delivery ward at the Mike O’Callaghan Federal Medical Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan. 13, 2015. Hogg was visiting Nellis and the nearby University Medical Center of Southern Nevada to discuss the benefits of the Sustained Medical and Readiness Trained, or SMART, program. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Senior Airman Thomas Spangler)
Army Staff Sgt. Jonathan Meadows works on a mixed media sculpture during an art therapy session at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital's Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic. Looking on is Jackie Biggs, an art therapist who manages the program for Wounded Warriors in the TBI Clinic. Meadows, who is assigned to Fort Belvoir's Warrior Transition Battalion, suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2012 when his vehicle was struck from behind in Afghanistan. (Department of Defense photo by Marc Barnes)
The Defense Health Agency’s latest shared service, the Public Health division, reached initial operating capability on Sept. 30, 2014.
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