In 1946, shortly after assuming the role of Administrator of the Veterans Administration, General Omar Bradley and VA's inaugural medical director, Major General Paul Hawley, M.D., initiated the establishment of today's Veterans Health Administration. They achieved this by founding the Department of Medicine and Surgery (DMS). Bradley and Hawley significantly enhanced Veterans' healthcare access in the aftermath of World War II and implemented numerous reforms and programs that ultimately gave rise to what we now refer to as the "third generation" of Veteran healthcare.
(Pictured L to R) Dr. Paul Magnusen, General Omar Bradley, and General Paul Hawley, the architects of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, 1946
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Image courtesy of the Department of Veterans Affairs
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