Regional Health Command-Pacific, which includes Tripler Army Medical Center and medical facilities in Japan and on the West Coast, will be getting a new leader, the Pentagon announced Friday.

Brig. Gen. Bertram Providence, currently command surgeon at U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., will replace Maj. Gen. Patrick Sargent.

Sargent’s next assignment will be as deputy commanding general for operations at the U.S. Army Medical Command, and chief, U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, at Joint Base San Antonio.

Hawaii recently gained a two-star general officer headquarters and 61 personnel with an Army-wide medical consolidation and strategic realignment. The Pacific Regional Medical Command, which had been a one-star command, became Regional Health Command-Pacific.

The command expanded its area of responsibility from Medical Activity-Japan, Medical Activity-Korea, Tripler, U.S. Army Health Clinic-Schofield Barracks and the Warrior Transition Battalion Hawaii to also include Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state, Presidio of Monterey U.S. Army Health Clinic in California and Bassett Army Community Hospital in Alaska.

The new responsibilities have come about as a result of a U.S. Army Medical Command reorganization from five regional medical commands to four multidisciplinary regional health commands.

The Army also created Central, Atlantic and European commands.

Providence has commanded the 1st Medical Brigade at Fort Hood in Texas and previously served as chief of orthopedic surgery at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg.