Navy Medicine is the pinnacle of excellence answering the call across any dynamic from kinetic operations to global engagement. Our healthcare is patient-centered and provides best value, preserves health, and maintains readiness. Agility, professionalism, an ethos of care, and the ability to deploy to any environment or sea state are our hallmarks. Recognizing that the strength of our Navy is enhanced by diverse ideas and perspectives; we must harness the distinctive talents of each individual and foster a culture of empowerment and innovation (Navy Medicine 2017). We will promote a spirit of cooperation; encourage members of our force to achieve their highest potential, and value our people and their families for their service to our …show more content…
Standardizing our clinical and non-clinical practices will improve the patient experience by ensuring there is less variation across the Navy Medicine enterprise. The implementation and refinement of operating procedures will improve accuracy and accountability (Navy Medicine 2017). Navy Medicine will identify opportunities for improved standardization across the enterprise in an effort to add increased value and quality to our beneficiaries and stakeholders. Navy Medicine is committed to ensuring first-rate medical readiness, promoting better health outcomes and overall wellness for its globally dispersed Sailors, Marines and their families. Navy Medicine will continually assess its programs like Medical Home Port, and its organizational alignment to ensure it provides the best return on the nation’s investment in quality health care for its naval forces. Our approach should be collaborative when possible; however, we will continue to excel and invest in those capabilities that are uniquely inherent to Navy Medicine. The synergy of creating efficiencies, removing redundancies, and allowing transparency will elevate care, reduce costs, and increase Navy Medicine’s ability to interface with our sister Services and other agencies (Navy …show more content…
The change is set to take effect in October 2018, and represents the need to combine its health care operations in pursuit of cost efficiencies; and a single unified medical command on par with the rest of the military’s combatant commands. Having a single agency to be responsible for the administration of all MTFs would best improve and sustain operational medical force readiness and the medical readiness of the armed forces, improve beneficiaries’ access to care and the experience of care, improve health outcomes, and lower the total management cost of the military health system. The current organizational structure is essentially three separate health systems each managed by one of the three services this paralyzes rapid decision-making and stifles innovation in producing a modern health care delivery system. Under the new system, the military medical commands would be absorbed into the DHA. The service surgeons general would become advisers to the service chiefs and secretaries as well as the Defense Health Agency, while DHA, led by a three-star, and would oversee four two-star organizations: military treatment facilities, personnel and training; current DHA duties; and medical force