Military Maj. Gen. Telita Crosland yesterday turned the Protection Well being Company’s fourth director in its almost 10-year existence, pledging to proceed taking the DHA “down its path of excellence.”
With a profession spanning three a long time of service within the Military and within the military health system, Crosland succeeded Military Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Ronald Place, who served as director since October 2019.
The Senate confirmed her promotion to lieutenant common, and she’s going to obtain her third star on Jan. 20. She additionally serves as the primary African American DHA director.
Performing Assistant Secretary of Protection for Well being Affairs Seileen Mullen presided over the Jan. 3 ceremony at Protection Well being Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, to welcome Crosland as the brand new director, transitioning from her most up-to-date place because the Military’s deputy surgeon common.
I am grateful for this chance and grateful to this staff, and enthusiastic about partnering with our surgeons common, our trade companions and our sufferers throughout a dynamic interval in well being care. … I really like what we do in our navy well being system in service to our nation and people we’re privileged to serve.”
Military Maj. Gen. Telita Crosland, Director, Protection Well being Company
The DHA was established in 2013 as a U.S. navy fight assist company to handle medical enterprise providers worldwide. In 2017, because of congressional mandates, DHA was tasked to immediately handle all navy hospitals and clinics and combine navy well being care with the TRICARE community of suppliers world wide.
As Crosland’s predecessor, Place oversaw this huge evolution of DHA throughout his tenure, with greater than 700 navy medical, dental and veterinary services transitioning from the Military, Navy and Air Drive to the company. At present, the DHA’s navy and civilian workforce of greater than 140,000 serve roughly 9.6 million energetic obligation service members, navy retirees and their households worldwide.
“The mission of navy medication basically stayed the identical for all 36 years of my time in uniform…and that is to take very good care of anybody who’s raised their hand to serve and to ship that care wherever on the earth, underneath essentially the most difficult circumstances conceivable,” Place mentioned. “Our navy well being mission endures. However organizations, alternatively, should evolve. Excessive reliability is about adaptation; it is about enchancment. And typically which means bringing in a totally new group, on this case the Protection Well being Company.”
Underneath Place’s management, DHA was additionally awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award for Excellence by the Secretary of Protection for its work responding to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and mitigating its unfold.
“Although Gen. Place’s sneakers will probably be arduous to fill, I’m assured that Gen. Crosland is the lady to take action,” Mullen mentioned.
Launching her navy profession as an Military medical corps officer in 1993, Crosland is a graduate of the U.S. Navy Academy, the Uniformed Companies College of Well being Sciences, the U.S. Military Command and Common Workers School, and the Eisenhower Faculty.
She has served in quite a lot of management positions all through her navy profession at navy installations, hospitals and clinics throughout the globe. Most not too long ago because the Military deputy surgeon common, she additionally served because the deputy commander of the Military’s medical command.
“From her days as a West Level cadet by her tutorial accomplishments as she earned her doctorate of medication, masters of public well being, and masters of science in nationwide useful resource technique, to her lengthy checklist of management positions in service to our nation, Gen. Crosland has proven precisely the form of perseverance, dedication, and excellence that may serve her, and us, so properly in her new place,” Mullen mentioned.
Crosland is board licensed by the American Board of Household Drugs, a fellow of the American Academy of Household Physicians, and a recipient of the Military Surgeon Common’s “A” proficiency designator. Her awards and decorations embrace the Legion of Benefit, Meritorious Service Medal, the Military Commendation Medal and the Joint Service Achievement Medal.
“For the reason that institution of the company in 2013, I’ve witnessed what you’re able to, and I do know you convey a ardour for and dedication to excellence,” Crosland mentioned of the DHA’s 140,000-strong workforce.
She concluded by accentuating that the brand new imaginative and prescient of the DHA is to “look after the joint power and people we’re privileged to serve — anytime, wherever — all the time.”
Concerning the Protection Well being Company
At a look, the Protection Well being Company, a fight assist company:
- Delivers well being care to hundreds of thousands of our service members, households, and retirees, with the principal function of preserving the forces wholesome and prepared
- Manages the TRICARE program, which incorporates lots of of hundreds of civilian community suppliers’ and integrating navy and personal sector care
- Leads a worldwide public well being system that proactively prevents accidents and sicknesses, and protects our communities from environmental threats
- Conducts and coordinates important medical analysis to higher put together the navy for recognized and rising threats, each pure and artifical
- Leads a navy medical training and coaching system, offering fantastically ready medical professionals for each medical mission
- Manages an $11 billion medical provide chain yearly, together with about 560,000 medical gadgets