Ronald Place receives promotion and new position
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HURON – Huron native and Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place has been named the next director of the Defense Health Agency.
His promotion to lieutenant general, thus becoming a three-star general, came during a separate ceremony the same day earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Looking on were his parents, Bob and Carol Place of Huron, and his wife, also named Carol.
Place succeeds Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, who is retiring after 36 years of service. She was the director of DHA since 2015.
In remarks at the change of responsibility ceremony, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Tom McCaffery said he has confidence in Place, saying he’s “no stranger to the changes underway” in transforming military medicine.
Place led the Military Health System’s National Defense Authorization Act 2017 Program Management Office, which oversaw the review of some of the most sweeping organizational changes in military medicine in decades.
In the past two years, Place has served in DHA leadership roles. He led the National Capital Region Medical Directorate and later the transitional Intermediate Management Organization that oversaw the transition of the first set of military hospitals and clinics to the DHA.