Senator Mazie Ok. Hirono and Assistant Secretary of the Military for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Debra Wada toured Tripler Military Medical Heart’s most cancers clinic, maternity ward, and neonatal intensive care unit to be taught extra concerning the companies supplied to ladies service members and army households.
“As extra careers open to ladies serving within the army, we should guarantee these service members and their households have entry to high quality well being care, together with specialty companies,” stated Senator Hirono. “The suppliers and employees I met at present at Tripler are dedicated to main the best way to attain this purpose, and as a member of the Senate Armed Providers Committee, I’ll work to make sure that our army companies are adequately outfitted to keep up the well being readiness of our power and to supply our army households with high quality care.”
“Ladies’s well being and repair is necessary to our Tripler Ohana,” stated Colonel Andrew M. Barr, Commander, Tripler Military Medical Heart. “Our employees is devoted to steady high quality enchancment and offering state-of-the-art medication with state-of-the-art expertise for all ladies’s well being wants. As we have a good time Ladies’s Equality Day this week, I wish to thank our feminine Troopers and employees at Tripler Military Medical Heart for his or her service as leaders, position fashions, and mentors to our sufferers, veterans, and employees.”
As a member of the Senate Armed Providers Committee, Senator Hirono efficiently included a number of well being care-related measures within the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act for Fiscal 12 months 2017, together with provisions that increase entry to information and check outcomes by way of a web-based portal, develop specialty care, and increase collaboration in maternity look after Hawaii’s army households.
Senator Hirono speaks with Assistant Secretary of the Military Debra Wada
Colonel Andrew Barr (left) briefs Senator Hirono on Tripler’s neonatal intensive care unit
