Priorities for Military Health System: ‘Our mission is readiness’
BLUF – The article summarizes Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs Keith Bass’s message that the Military Health System’s primary purpose is not healthcare delivery alone but generating medical readiness and combat capability, with priorities centered on staffing, infrastructure modernization, civilian partnerships, trauma systems, blood programs, and medical logistics. For Navy Medicine, the most important takeaway is the continued shift toward measuring success by operational readiness—maintaining deployable medical forces, preserving clinical currency through civilian partnerships, and investing in capabilities that directly support future warfighting requirements rather than traditional peacetime healthcare metrics.
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/568365/priorities-military-health-system-our-mission-readiness
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