Objectives
Deliver integrated healthcare in the NCR, ensure readiness, and execute the BRAC business plans to achieve the vision.
JTF CapMed objectives are to ensure effective and efficient delivery of world-class military healthcare in the National Capital Region; oversee execution of the NCR Medical Base Realignment and Closure; and conduct other missions as assigned to improve management, performance and efficiency of the Military Health System.
Establishing a clear and concise vision, Navy Vice Adm. John Mateczun, former JTF CapMed commander, proposed that the future Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD would be: “A world-class medical center at the hub of the nation’s premier regional health care system serving our military and our nation. We will deliver integrated health care in the NCR, ensure readiness, and execute the BRAC business plan to achieve the vision.”
To accomplish this unified medical mission, the medical services of the Army, Navy and Air Force in the NCR integrated to ensure the best utilization of resources available. This eliminated redundancies, enhanced clinical care, promoted health profession education and joint training, and enhanced military medical research opportunities. This integration furthered the growth of transformative efforts with government, community and private sector partners.
JTF CapMed aligns to the Military Health System’s Quadruple Aim of: Readiness, Population Health and Per Capita Cost.
Readiness: Ensuring that the families and individuals that make up the total military force is medically ready to deploy and that the medical force is ready to deliver health care anytime, anywhere in support of the full range of military operations, including humanitarian missions.
Experience of Care: Providing a care experience that is patient- and family- centered, compassionate, convenient, equitable, safe, and always of the highest quality.
Population Health: Reducing the generators of ill health by encouraging healthy behaviors and decreasing the likelihood of illness through focused prevention, chronic care management and the development of increased resilience.
Per Capita Cost: Creating value by focusing on quality, eliminating waste, and reducing unwarranted variation; considering the total cost of care over time, not just the cost of an individual health care activity.
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