Defense Health Care: DOD Is Meeting Most Mental Health Care Access Standards, But It Needs A Standard For Follow-Up Appointments

In this report released in April 2016, the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzed access to  mental health care access across the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Military Healthy System (MHS). The GAO focused on the timeliness of mental health services available to active duty servicemembers, the National Guard and Reserve servicemembers, and deployed DOD civilians . . .