The full review of the military health-care system that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered has begun. Naval Medical Center San Diego, Calif., became the first of seven sites to under go the 90-day top-to-bottom review. The results will provide Pentagon leadership with a yardstick to measure how well the system is providing safe and timely health care to beneficiaries. The other treatment facilities are Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., the Air Force Academy Cadet Clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., Winn Army Community Hospital at Fort Stewart, Ga., Royal Air Force Lakenheath Hospital, England, Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River, Md., and Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Va. Teams consisting of more than 20 health-care professionals will conduct the review with on-site visits and town-hall sessions, and present their recommendations to Hagel once their work is complete. Hagel ordered the review after reports that patients at Fort Bragg, N.C.’s Womack Army Medical Center died because of alleged staff incompetence. The director of Womack was fired in the aftermath. The scandal that is rocking the Department of Veterans Affairs, in which medical-facility directors allegedly kept two sets of lists of who had been treated, also played a role in Hagel’s call for action. The numerous VA incidents now coming to light also are being linked to patient deaths.