Mandated by Public Law 97-174, the DoD and VA have more than 30 years of health care resource sharing, resulting in more than 200 sharing agreements and ten joint ventures in the United States. DoD/VA resource sharing encompasses a wide range of services such as:
- Education and training
- Medical/surgical
- Traumatic brain injury
- Blind rehabilitation
- Spinal cord injury
- Gastroenterology
- Obstetrics/gynecology
- Mental health
- Pharmacy
- Pathology
- Physical therapy
- Physical examinations
Benefiting both DoD and VA beneficiaries, resource sharing minimizes duplication and underuse of health care resources promoting cost-effective use of federal healthcare resources.
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6/29/2016
![Dr. Karen Guice, acting assistant secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, addresses the National Academies of Sciences Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence in Washington, D.C., June 27, 2016.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019081254im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Guice%20NAS.ashx?mw=120)
Service members are surviving their battlefield injuries better than ever before. During a panel session at the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Karen Guice, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, explained how a new system is making sure government agencies are in synch when those wounded warriors go for medical treatment.
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9/23/2015
![At-risk individuals could have anywhere from five to 20 different warning signs. They could be going through relationship, legal, financial, emotional or other problems and could withdraw from socializing with their fellow service members. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Airman 1st Class Corey Hook)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019081254im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Warning%20signs%20of%20suicide.ashx?mw=120)
DoD, in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, is promoting the “The Power of 1” campaign during September in observance of Suicide Prevention Month
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5/11/2015
![The hockey skate adapters help wounded warriors play hockey.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019081254im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/FAASTSkates.ashx?mw=120)
In its second year, the Federal Advanced Amputation Skills Training Symposium, or FAAST, will aim to equip DoD and VA physicians, therapists, prosthetists and other clinicians with a multitude of lessons learned from the past decade of war. The symposium will be hosted by the Center for the Intrepid, Brooke Army Medical Center's state-of-the-art outpatient rehabilitation center, May 19-21.
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3/13/2015
![Department of Veterans Affairs Seal](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019081254im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Military%20Medicine.ashx?mw=120)
In a move that helps veterans, and active-duty military patients and their families, local VA and military medical facilities have dramatically increased their work-share agreements over the past two years and they are seeking to add more.
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Policy
Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Resource Sharing Program. Assigns responsibilities and prescribes procedures for the development and operation of DoD and VA health care resource sharing agreements (when a determination is made that such arrangements will improve access to quality health care or increase cost-effectiveness of the health care provided by the Military Health System (MHS) and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to beneficiaries of both departments.
Policy
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Defense shall enter into agreements and contracts for the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of use of the health care resources of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense with the goal of improving the access to, and quality and cost effectiveness of, the health care provided by the Veterans Health Administration and the Military Health System to the beneficiaries of both Departments.
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