Surgeon General
Surgeon General Statement on Military MTF Transition
UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 051709Z AUG 19 FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 180/19 PASS TO OFFICE CODES: FM CNO WASHINGTON DC//DNS// MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/DNS/AUG// SUBJ/ NAVY SURGEON GENERAL STATEMENT ON MILITARY MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITIES TRANSITION// RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN provides Sailors and their families with information about the transition of Navy military medical treatment facilities (MTF) to the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The Department of Defense Military Health System (MHS) is undergoing a transition as administration and management of the Services' hospitals and clinics are transferred to DHA. This is occurring over several years with a goal envisioned by Congress that the MHS become a more standardized and a more integrated system of healthcare services. The Services have been working closely with DHA on the details and specifics of this transition. 2. This transition should be seamless to you. During this transition, you should see no immediate impact to access, healthcare services, or the things you and your families need. As this is a new role for DHA, the Services have continued, and will continue, to provide support and assistance to ensure our MTF's remain fully functional, and there is no immediate impact to care or services during transition until DHA is able to assume full administrative and management responsibility. Likewise, our Fleet and Fleet Marine Force Commanders should see no changes in Fleet or Fleet Marine Force support. Medical and medical support services required for operational support, all personnel who provide those services, and all uniformed personnel will remain within the Navy lifelines and under Navy control. 3. This transition is a multi-year effort, which started for the Navy in October 2018 when Naval Hospital Jacksonville transferred under DHA's administration and management. On 1 October 2019, more Navy MTFs in the U.S. will transition to the DHA. OCONUS MTFs, in a phased approach, will transition after all CONUS facilities, with the transfer of administration and management completed no later than 30 September 2021. 4. As we shift administration and management responsibilities of these MTFs to DHA, it will create opportunity for Navy Medicine to increase focus on operational support and keeping Service Members healthy and on the job. It will also enable us to enhance focus on unit support during sustained high tempo operations while creating opportunities for us to better prepare the medical force to deliver high combat survival and support in the future. We make a commitment to every Sailor, Marine, and their family that we will provide them the best care our nation can offer and do all in our power to return them home safely and alive. This transition will assist us in honoring that commitment. 5. For additional information, contact your local MTF or ask your care providers. More information on the overall initiative can be found at https://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/. 6. We at Navy Medicine will always honor the trust placed on us to provide the best care possible to those who defend our freedom and their families. Wherever a Sailor or Marine goes, Navy Medicine will always be there. My commitment is to keep you fully informed as this continues. Thank you so much for the trust and faith you place in Navy Medicine every day. 7. Released by Ms. Steffanie B. Easter, Director, Navy Staff.// BT #0001 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED//
U.S. Navy Surgeon General Visits Europe to Discuss Readiness and Medical Health Care Transition
WASHINGTON (NNS) — Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery discussed the future of Navy Medicine, and plans to prepare medical personnel for the next fight, while visiting Rota, Spain, and Naples and Sigonella, Italy, July 17-23.
Faison, accompanied by Force Master Chief Hosea Smith, Hospital Corps director, spoke with leaders and Sailors at Naval Hospital Rota, Naples and Sigonella about important changes occurring within the military health system, in particular the transition of all military treatment facilities (MTFs) to the administration and management of the Defense Health Agency (DHA).
“These changes that are occurring,” said Faison, “will allow Navy Medicine to shift our focus from managing buildings and health care benefits to ensuring its people, doctors, nurses, and hospital corpsmen have the skills and experience to keep Sailors and Marines, healthy, ready, and on the job. This transition will allow us to promote Navy Medicine readiness across the world.”
During the multi-day trip, Faison had the privilege to conduct facility tours, admiral’s calls and leadership briefings.
“There is no greater responsibility than then to provide a highly trained medical force that is ready and prepared to save the lives of our nation’s armed forces,” Faison said. “We had a 97 percent survival rate coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the highest in all our history, and we had every conceivable advantage, including uncontested air superiority, aeromedical evacuation on demand, seamless communications, and our hospital corpsman, the most important asset on the field.”
Faison explained these advantages may not exist in the next conflict if adversaries are near-peers who can also project sea power. That’s why Navy Medicine has to be prepared for a very different threat and challenge.
Partnerships that prepare Navy Medicine’s Sailors for future conflicts can build on the successes of existing ones, such as Hospital Corpsman Trauma Training, a Navy Medicine program where hospital corpsman have gained hands-on trauma experience at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and the University of Florida Health Jacksonville.
“We must show that we are worthy of the trust that is placed in our hands,” said Faison. “We are the ones that care for the 1% of individuals that freely volunteered to uphold our freedom and democracy of this land, and we will do whatever we can to help these military members carry on, in order to defend this country and return them home to their loved ones.”
Navy Medicine is a global health care network of 63,000 personnel that provide health care support to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, their families and veterans in high operational tempo environments, at expeditionary medical facilities, medical treatment facilities, hospitals, clinics, hospital ships and research units around the world.
Navy Surgeon General Offers Encouragement
Navy Surgeon General: Potential Sea Conflict Requires ‘Refocus’
Here’s a link to this article:
Navy Surgeon General: Potential Sea Conflict Requires ‘Refocus’
Prepared Statements from Recent Congressional Testimony
Here are all the prepared statements from the recent Congressional testimony about the FY20 budget if you want to read them. Both are pretty quick reads.
Senate Appropriations Committee
Military.com – Services Turn Focus to Warfighters as DHA Takes Over Military Hospitals
Here’s a link to this Military.com article that discusses the recent congressional testimony by the various SGs and DHA:
Services Turn Focus to Warfighters as DHA Takes Over Military Hospitals
Navy Surgeon General Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, provided the following opening remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, during a hearing April 3 on the Fiscal Year 2020 budget request for the Defense Health Program. Remarks as prepared by Vice Adm. Forrest Faison can be found at this link:
Navy Surgeon General Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
A Message from the Navy Surgeon General: Celebrating 148 years of the Medical Corps
It is my privilege and honor to congratulate our Navy Medical Corps on behalf of our entire Navy Medicine family, as they celebrate 148 years of service to our nation.
Steadfast and reliable in service for years before its formal establishment on March 3, 1871, the Medical Corps is comprised entirely of physicians who have dedicated their lives to medicine and national service. The special dedication to years of academics and grueling residency is fueled by a selfless dedication to patients, both current and future. The readiness and health of fellow Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, and Airmen is paramount to our nation’s military service and the defense of our way of life.
75 years ago, as Marines led the charge of a ferocious island hopping campaign in the pacific, Navy physicians were by their side storming the beaches and establishing forward aid stations, providing critical care to their brothers-in-arms. Navy physicians continued to provide this life-saving care during combat operations in Vietnam and 15 years ago during the battles of Fallujah. Today, they remain steadfast as a ready medical force. They continue to operate on and from the sea, providing primary and surgical care to the fleet and our troops in combat zones. Their efforts have helped define the highest standard of care and with their health care teams, they have saved thousands of lives throughout our nation’s history.
Their service extends beyond the battlefield in the countless hours of service ensuring our warfighter’s readiness to fight. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, there are always Navy physicians on-call and standing the watch. Their calling requires constant vigilance and we are grateful for their innumerable personal sacrifices in service of their patients, our nation’s sons and daughters.
I am constantly reminded of our bright future as we look ahead to shape the future of navy medicine. The ingenuity and ability of our physicians to adapt and overcome any challenge, while ensuring the highest standards of care is one of navy medicine’s finest qualities.
To all who have served in our navy medical corps, past and present, thank you for your sacrifices, your dedication, compassion, and selfless service as you care for those who need you most. Happy 148th birthday shipmates!
Released by Vice Admiral C. Forrest Faison III, Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
SG Blog Post: Building Navy Medicine’s Future – Taking a Bearing
Here’s a post from the Surgeon General on the Navy’s Blog:
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