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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2943 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 723

Sec. 723. Selection of commanders and directors of military treatment facilities and tours of duty of commanders of such facilities

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Not later than January 1, 2018, the Secretary of Defense shall do the following: Develop the common qualifications and core competencies required of individuals for selection as commanders or directors of military treatment facilities. Establish a minimum length for the tour of duty of an individual as a commander of a military treatment facility. In developing common qualifications and core competencies required of individuals for selection as commanders or directors of military treatment facilities pursuant to subsection (a)(1), the Secretary shall include standards with respect to the following:
Professional competence. Moral and ethical integrity and character. Formal education in healthcare executive leadership and healthcare management. Such other matters as the Secretary considers appropriate. The objective of the Secretary in developing such qualifications and competencies shall be to ensure that the individuals selected as commanders or directors of military treatment facilities are highly qualified to serve as health system executives in any medical treatment facility of the Armed Forces.
Except as provided in paragraph (2), the length of the tour of duty as a commander of a military treatment facility of any individual assigned to such position after January 1, 2018, may not be shorter than the longer of— the length established pursuant to subsection (a)(2); or four years. The Secretary of the military department concerned may authorize a tour of duty of an individual as a commander of a military treatment facility of a shorter length than is otherwise provided for in paragraph
(1)if the Secretary determines, in the discretion of the Secretary, that there is good cause for a tour of duty in such position of shorter length. Any such determination shall be made on a case-by-case basis.
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