Rear Adm. Matthew Case is the acting Assistant Director, Healthcare Administration, Defense Health Agency, Falls Church, Virginia. Case leads the administration and management of healthcare delivery across all military hospitals and clinics. He is responsible for sustaining the medical readiness of the armed forces and the readiness of the medical force supporting them. Case assists the DHA director in managing and directing healthcare facilities, implementing policies and procedures supporting healthcare delivery and administration, guiding cross-functional support to the markets, and managing the TRICARE Health Plan.
Prior to becoming the acting AD HCA, he was Commander, Naval Medical Forces Atlantic and Director, Defense Health Network Atlantic, both in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Case served operationally as Plans, Operations, and Medical Intelligence Officer with II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and U.S. Naval Forces Europe/U.S. Sixth Fleet. In 2007, he served on an Individual Augmentee tour to Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, Djibouti and again in 2012 with 1st Marine Logistics Group, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
During his ashore tours, Case served in various positions throughout Navy Medicine, including Administrative Officer to the Director of Clinical Services at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Director for Administration at Naval Ambulatory Care Center, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Naval Health Clinic Annapolis, Maryland; Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. He has also served as the Placement Officer and Assistant Branch Head, Medical Officer Assignment at Navy Personnel Command, and Executive Officer, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. In 2018, he assumed command of Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida. During this assignment he became the first Naval Medical Readiness Training Command Commander and DHA MTF Director. Following his command tour in 2020, he served as the Executive Assistant to the Surgeon General, U.S. Navy, and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Falls Church, Virginia.
His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal (six awards), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards), as well as the Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer qualification and Fleet Marine Force Qualified Officer designation. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and was selected for the 2012 American Hospital Association’s Federal Health Care Executive Special Achievement Award.
Case, a native of Nottingham, New Hampshire, was a direct accession and commissioned in 1994. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Hampshire in 1989 and earned a Master of Science in Health Care Administration in 1993.
