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The North Star

DHA will ensure deployable military medical personnel in military hospitals and clinics meet their Joint Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. We will use our current footprint of readiness-generating military hospitals and expand our current partnerships to increase high-acuity and surgical care volume for our teams.

Key Milestones in Fiscal Year 2027

DHA will help invest in the “Core 15” hospitals to keep them as busy, reliable places where medical teams can get – and sustain – the skills and experience they need to support the force at any given moment.

Key Milestones in Fiscal Year 2027

Medical Warrior Resources

Clinical Practice Guidelines

Systematiclly developed statements that assist healthcare professionals in making informed decisions about patient care.

Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute

Resident and non-resident joint medical readiness training courses and professional medical programs.

DHA Clinical Training Programs

The premiere platform for producing expert clinicians, trained to the scope of practice required in the operational force.

DHA Graduate Medical Education

Graduate Medical Education opportunities at 25 sponsoring institutions across the DHA enterprise.

Joint Trauma System

Saving lives with data through evidence-driven performance improvement.

Medical Education Training Campus

Provides world class enlisted medical training to support mission readiness in peacetime and war.

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Navy Vice Adm. Darin Via, director of the Defense Health Agency, speaks with emerging military healthcare leaders at the 2026 Tri-Service Chapters Annual Scientific Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, Aug. 26. Opening the meeting, Via stressed the role of medical leaders in combat power and delivery of warfighter medical readiness: “You all will save more lives on the future battlefield … you will keep more fighters in the fight, and that is how we will win the war.”

Data is Defense Health Agency's ‘North Star’ delivering decisive warfighter support

To achieve our North Star, DHA should be synchronized and data-driven to deliver decisive warfighter support.

LANDSTUHL, Germany — Col Warren Stewart, commander, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center welcomed clinical specialists and leadership from France’s Hôpital d’instruction des armées Percy on Aug. 31. The two-day reciprocal familiarization visit focused on allied trauma / burn care and operational readiness.

Building bridges in military medicine: HIA Percy completes reciprocal visit to LRMC

The intent was to understand Percy’s organization, with particular emphasis on areas such as burn and trauma care, critical care, and rehabilitation.

Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital pediatricians and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University physician assistant students gather in the Pediatric Clinic at Fort Polk, Louisiana, Aug. 26. From left are Maj. Benjamin H. Tan, chief of the Department of Pediatrics; Capt. Kiara Schein; PA student Miya Browning; PA student Tayler Hooper; and Capt. Hailey Buller. Browning and Hooper completed a required pediatric clinical rotation at BJACH Aug. 3-27 under the supervision of the pediatric team. BJACH has partnered with FranU since 2019 to provide clinical learning opportunities for future healthcare professionals.

Small hospital, big classroom: BJACH helps train tomorrow’s healthcare professionals

In the military, it is the bedrock to make sure students fresh out of training are equipped to lead and care for patients.

Thirty-one Soldiers recently graduated in Class 26-009 from the U.S. Army Practical Nurse Course at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, preparing them for the 68C military occupational specialty. They will now take their skills to the field as team members of the frontline of military medical care to enhance force readiness throughout the Department of War's Military Health System.

Soldiers graduate from Practical Nurse Course at Walter Reed

Soldiers graduated from the U.S. Army Practical Nurse Course at Walter Reed during a ceremony.

In the chaos of a medical crisis, a Soldier’s most profound hope is for a calm voice and a skilled pair of hands. At Fort Leonard Wood, ensuring that every combat medic specialist can be that beacon of hope is a mission that begins long before they deploy. It’s a promise forged in the classrooms and simulation labs of the General Leonard Wood Community Hospital’s Medical Education and Training Department.

A promise kept: How Fort Leonard Wood’s medics uphold the ultimate trust

We want to ensure that every medic is trusted, from the most senior to the most junior soldier, to provide the best possible care.

Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Mike Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Joanne Obajolu performing a log roll of the patient while performing an assessment during an Expeditionary Sustainment training exercise July 31. Sailors from around the facility worked together during the two-day training to work on field medical skills. (U.S. Navy photo by Julie M. Lucas)

Expeditionary medicine sharpens skills during sustainment exercise

This type of training goes along with the body, mind and soul theory of being spiritually ready as a warfighter.

Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Jason Adams, a visiting neurotologist from Brooke Army Medical Center, and Maj. (Dr.) Khang N. Lu, JBER's staff otolaryngologist, perform a complex ear surgery at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Adams traveled to JBER to provide specialized surgical care and train local medical teams, ensuring patients receive world-class treatment without having to travel thousands of miles. (Courtesy Photo)

Bringing healing home: The impact of the circuit-rider surgeon at JBER

A highly efficient approach known as the "circuit-rider" model is flipping the paradigm by bringing the specialist directly to the patient.

Surgical and Critical Care Physician Assistant Residents (from left to right): Capt. Ralph Pangilinan, Capt. Jordyn Peacock, and Capt. Nykole Turner and Program Director Maj. Elissa Flynn

Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center launches new physician assistant residency program

Mastering advanced procedural skills, the graduates will be prepared to care for military personnel operating in austere environments.

RAHC Commander Col. Nicole Charbonneau cuts the ribbon on the new VA Clinic at Reynolds Army Health Clinic with Mr. Paul Gregory Associate Director for the OKC VA Health Care system. From left to right, Dr. Kirk Eggleston assistant director medical affairs Defense Health Network, West, Ms. Rebecca Hacker, assistant director healthcare operations Defense Health Network, West, Lawton Mayor Stan Booker, Dr. Alvin Peterson Deputy to the Commanding General United States Army Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill, Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Flynn Command Sergeant Major United States Army Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Tatu Command Sergeant Major Reynolds Army Health Clinic.

VA clinic opens at Reynolds Army Health Clinic

Initial specialty care provided by the VA includes cardiology, dermatology, neurology, orthopedics and podiatry.

Regional Partnership Gives Army Healthcare Professionals Critical Trauma Experience

Regional partnership gives Army healthcare professionals critical trauma experience

Part of our mission is to ensure Army healthcare professionals are ready to support the warfighter anytime, anywhere.

Military medical professionals tested in capstone Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise

Military medical professionals tested in capstone Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise

More than 130 military medical professionals and combat medics converged at Fort Hood this week for the annual Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise.

medical staff member speaks to nurses outside of patient's room

Education and Training

As part of our combat support mission, the DHA leads standardized, high-value education and training activities for service members, providers and the global DHA workforce.

Surgeons in an operating room

System-Wide Privileging for Providers

DHA Updates Provider Privileging: Your Military Health System Privileges Go Where You Go

Avoiding the Walker Dip: Military health professionals must ‘train how you’re going to fight’

Avoiding the Walker Dip: Military health professionals must ‘train how you’re going to fight’

Our priority is medical force readiness to ensure that our military forces are ready for combat.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Orthopedic Surgeon Mark Gould, U.S. Navy retired captain, prepares for a hindfoot fusion surgery at Naval Hospital (NH) Jacksonville

VA surgeon operates on patients in naval facility

For the first time ever, a VA surgeon operated on a patient in NH Jacksonville, which has been a military treatment facility for nearly 85 years.

DoW-VA partnership provides increased access to care for Hudson Valley Veterans

DOW-VA partnership provides increased access to care for Hudson Valley veterans

Beneficiaries in the Hudson Valley region can receive care at KACH from both KACH and VA clinicians and receive expanded access to select healthcare services.

Ready Before the Call: LRMC Advances Trauma Readiness Through Simulation Training

Ready before the call: LRMC advances trauma readiness through simulation training

This training ensures our medical teams are prepared to respond quickly, confidently and competently when it matters most.

Nurses of the A.T. Augusta Military Medical Center (ATAMMC) experience realistic scenarios during the Individual Critical Task Lists (ICTL) training

ATAMMC Strengthens Deployment Readiness Through ICTL Training for Army Nurses

ATAMMC participants collectively completed 16 critical clinical skills designed to enhance both confidence and competence in operational environments.

Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center

CRDAMC, central Texas VA expand partnership to boost care for Veterans and service members

The two health systems have collaborated to improve access, strengthen training, and ensure patients receive care when and where they need it.