Military health care : departments should update policies for providers in operational settings like field hospitals and aircraft carriers : report to congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, autho.

Contributor:

Silas, Sharon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Personnel management--Evaluation.

United States.

Soldiers--Medical care--United States--Management.

Soldiers.

United States--Armed Forces--Medical care--Management.

Military hospitals--United States--Management--Evaluation.

Military hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 29 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

GAO-25-106445 provider quality in operational settings

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2024.

Summary:

DOD health care providers deliver care in settings where military operations take place. These operational settings include hospital ships, field hospitals, and aircraft carriers. Providers go to these settings--usually from DOD's military medical treatment facilities--to provide critical health care services, such as trauma care for service members with battle injuries and civilian care during humanitarian missions. DOD military departments-- Navy, Air Force, and Army--are responsible for ensuring providers in operational settings are qualified and competent to provide safe, quality care. This is part of DOD's overall effort to assure clinical quality across the military health system. GAO examined military departments' progress in updating relevant policies, among other issues. GAO is making three recommendations, one to each military department to issue, as soon as possible, updated policies on privileging and evaluating providers in operational settings.

Contents:

Background.

Military departments have not issued updated policies for provider privileging and evaluations for operational settings.

Navy accepts existing privileges for providers temporarily assigned to operational settings and evaluates their performance within these settings.

Air Force approves privileges and conducts evaluations for providers temporarily assigned to operational settings.

Army does not have a standardized process for privileging and evaluating providers for operational settings.

Conclusions.

Recommendations for executive action.

Agency comments.

Appendices.

Notes:

"December 2024."

"GAO-25-106445."

In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed December 5, 2024).

OCLC:

1475313624