Spectrum Healthcare Resources awarded new 10-year contract to deliver health care for active duty and retired military personnel and families
2024年5月14日 - 2:47AM
Spectrum Healthcare Resources (Spectrum), a long-standing, trusted
partner of the U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System,
announces that it was awarded a 10-year contract with the Defense
Health Agency (DHA) after a rigorous and competitive bidding
process. Through this new contract, Spectrum will support the DHA
Medical Q-Coded Support and Services-Next Generation (MQS2-NG)
program for the period of June 1, 2024, through May 31, 2034.
Under this contract, Spectrum will provide direct patient care
and other associated support services or health activities for
active duty and retired military personnel and their families
across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and
other U.S. territories and possessions. By providing increased
clinical personnel and a stable, predictable workforce, Spectrum
will reinforce the DHA mission to deliver timely access to
high-quality care, sustain uniform service provider clinical skills
that will decrease overall Department of Defense health care costs,
and enhance readiness opportunities.
“We are pleased that the Defense Health Agency will continue to
entrust Spectrum’s physicians, nurses, dentists, and other
caregivers with providing top-quality, proven care to our nation’s
defenders and their families so they can continue the critical work
protecting our country,” George Tracy, President of Spectrum
Healthcare Resources, said. “From our inception, Spectrum has been
dedicated to serving the Military Health System, and we are
privileged to partner with the DHA in sustaining and expanding
military medical capabilities to maximize medical education and
training pipelines, ensure force readiness, and optimize capacity
to re-attract and provide access to care for our warfighters and
beneficiaries.”
About Spectrum Healthcare ResourcesSpectrum
Healthcare Resources (Spectrum) was established in 1988 to deliver
systems, programs and processes designed to meet the unique needs
of military, government and Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Systems.
Spectrum is the leading organization providing physician and
clinical staffing and program management services to United States
Military Treatment Facilities, VA clinics, and other Federal
Agencies through various contracting vehicles. Spectrum provides
responsive, innovative services producing proven, value-added
results as defined by our customer.
In addition to our own extensive capabilities, Spectrum is able
to augment its own resources with the reach and scope of our parent
company, TeamHealth. Through more than 14,000 affiliated healthcare
professionals and advanced practice clinicians, TeamHealth offers
emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care,
anesthesiology, orthopedic surgery, general surgery, obstetrics,
acute behavioral health, post-acute care, post-acute behavioral
health, ambulatory care, and medical call center solutions to more
than 2,600 acute and post-acute facilities and physician groups
nationwide.
The term “TeamHealth” as used throughout this release includes
Team Health Holdings, Inc., its subsidiaries, affiliates,
affiliated medical groups and providers, all of which are part of
the TeamHealth organization. “Providers” are physicians, advanced
practice clinicians and other healthcare providers who are employed
by or contract with subsidiaries or affiliated entities of Team
Health Holdings, Inc. All such providers exercise independent
clinical judgment when providing patient care. Team Health
Holdings, Inc., does not have any employees, does not contract with
providers and does not practice medicine.
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