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Defense Health Care

The Defense Health Program trains military medical personnel and provides health care in peace and war to active duty members, retirees and their families around the globe.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program's patients are generally satisfied with the availability and quality of health care, and it is widely recognized for ensuring quality medical care in combat zones and at home.
  • The program is in the process of developing performance targets to help it achieve its recently revised strategic plan. For example, the program is developing measures to help it ensure military members are medically ready for combat.
  • The program has not developed efficiency measures that are aligned to specific budget actions. However, the program is implementing a system to help it compare its costs to private medical systems as a way to increase its focus on efficiency.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Creating performance measurements to assess progress towards key goals.
  • Developing efficiency measures and demonstrating a link to available funding.
  • Coordinating with the Department of Veterans Affairs through enrollment, patient record data, and joint medical sites.

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