Defense Health Agency Moving Ahead with Pre-Pandemic Plan to Shift Care, Close Some Facilities

March 31, 2022

DOD is moving forward with a plan it paused in 2020 that moves the military services’ 51 hospitals and 424 health clinics to the Defense Health Agency, Military.com reported. The plan, which was put on hold when the agency shifted to COVID-19 response, will cut almost 13,000 military health billets and move many beneficiaries to private sector care.

Air Force photo by Senior Airman Megan Munoz

March 31, 2022

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