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DOD sending team to Madigan for audit on military health care
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/06/20/3253933/dod-sending-team-to-madigan-for.html?sp=/99/296/331/354/DOD sending team to Madigan for audit on military health care
By Adam Ashton
Staff writer
June 20, 2014 Updated 14 hours ago
The Defense Department is putting Madigan Army Medical Center under the microscope as part of a nationwide review of military hospitals commissioned in the wake of complaints about delays in care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The medical center south of Tacoma was one of seven hospitals selected from around the country and Europe to give the Pentagon a diverse picture of health care based on geography, scale and branch of the military. They were not selected because of any suspected problems.
The group includes the Army hospital at Georgia’s Fort Stewart, Naval Hospital San Diego and the Air Force Academy Clinic in Colorado.
“In general, they were deemed to be seven good medical facilities for us to look at,” said Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby.