Plans for Hospital Closures as Part of Military Health System Reform Forging Ahead After Pause
30 Mar 2022
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
The Defense Health Agency is moving ahead with plans to close some 50 hospitals and clinics following a pause that began at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The closures are part of the agency’s broader effort under a Defense Department initiative to
shift management of the military services' 51 hospitals and 424 health clinics to the Defense Health Agency and focus the Army, Navy and Air Force's medical commands on providing health care primarily for military personnel.
The plan calls for trimming roughly 12,800 military health billets and moving many non-military beneficiaries to private-sector health care -- a change that would let DoD downsize or close some health facilities, assuming Congress doesn’t step in.
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