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SPECIAL REPORT: ARMY MEDICINE
AUSA News Special Report April 2008
Military health care system aims for private sector standard
Providing troops quality health care through a military system that rivals and even outperforms the private sector is a top Defense Department priority, a senior Pentagon official said Jan. 28.
VA chief pledges to cut wait time for claim checks
Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake pledged to trim more than five weeks off the time it now takes to get the first check to a war veteran who files a disability claim. It echoed a statement in an address he made earlier to the Military Health System conference in Washington.
More screenings important to pinpoint emotional injuries related to combat
While screenings performed immediately after returning from deployment might be successful in identifying physical symptoms, the process might allow gaps in detecting latent symptoms related to context.
Soldiers learn to assist with surgeries
The Army’s operating room specialists, known as “68 Deltas,” are trained at the Army Medical Department Center and School at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and are responsible for everything from holding retractors and passing instruments to sterilizing equipment and preparing specimens for the lab.
Humanitarian relief missions remain important for building alliances for U.S.
Adding humanitarian aid delivery to military medicine missions will “stress an already stressed force,” a senior officer in Joint Forces Command said, but it is a mission “we cannot afford not to” do.
New office focuses on mental health issues
Army Col. (P) Loree Sutton is a woman on a mission. The military psychiatrist has, since the beginning of the year, ricocheted across the Capital Beltway landscape and beyond, setting up a Defense Department office that will, for the first time, bring together the best of the best relating to psychological health and brain injury treatment.
Army steps up attention to brain, stress injuries
The Army is aggressively diagnosing and treating soldiers who suffer concussive injuries and stress related to blast attacks, the Army’s surgeon general said told reporters Feb. 7.
Health system faces higher expectations
Increasing cooperation across the military health community and responding to health care feedback should guide health professionals serving U.S. troops, the Pentagon’s senior personnel official said.
Electronic record keeping makes strides
The commander of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center said the armed services “have come a long way” in medical electronic record keeping, but “the problem is we have added them on but they don’t talk to each other.”
Combat survival rates climb with improved medical procedures
Improved medical procedures and equipment have helped service members survive combat wounds at unprecedented rates, according to Brig. Gen. David A. Rubenstein, the Army’s deputy surgeon general.
Game helps civilian in life-saving situation
A longtime America’s Army player became a first responder at a tragic car accident last November by employing life saving techniques he learned by playing the America’s Army game.
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Military health care system aims for private sector standard (04/01/2008)
Providing troops quality health care through a military system that rivals and even outperforms the private sector is a top Defense Department priority, a senior Pentagon official said Jan. 28.
| VA chief pledges to cut wait time for claim checks (04/01/2008)
Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake pledged to trim more than five weeks off the time it now takes to get the first check to a war veteran who files a disability claim. It echoed a statement in an address he made earlier to the Military Health System conference in Washington.
| More screenings important to pinpoint emotional injuries related to combat (04/01/2008)
While screenings performed immediately after returning from deployment might be successful in identifying physical symptoms, the process might allow gaps in detecting latent symptoms related to context.
| Soldiers learn to assist with surgeries (04/01/2008)
The Army’s operating room specialists, known as “68 Deltas,” are trained at the Army Medical Department Center and School at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and are responsible for everything from holding retractors and passing instruments to sterilizing equipment and preparing specimens for the lab.
| Humanitarian relief missions remain important for building alliances for U.S. (04/01/2008)
Adding humanitarian aid delivery to military medicine missions will “stress an already stressed force,” a senior officer in Joint Forces Command said, but it is a mission “we cannot afford not to” do.
| New office focuses on mental health issues (04/01/2008)
Army Col. (P) Loree Sutton is a woman on a mission. The military psychiatrist has, since the beginning of the year, ricocheted across the Capital Beltway landscape and beyond, setting up a Defense Department office that will, for the first time, bring together the best of the best relating to psychological health and brain injury treatment.
| Army steps up attention to brain, stress injuries (04/01/2008)
The Army is aggressively diagnosing and treating soldiers who suffer concussive injuries and stress related to blast attacks, the Army’s surgeon general said told reporters Feb. 7.
| Health system faces higher expectations (04/01/2008)
Increasing cooperation across the military health community and responding to health care feedback should guide health professionals serving U.S. troops, the Pentagon’s senior personnel official said.
| Electronic record keeping makes strides (04/01/2008)
The commander of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center said the armed services “have come a long way” in medical electronic record keeping, but “the problem is we have added them on but they don’t talk to each other.”
| Combat survival rates climb with improved medical procedures (04/01/2008)
Improved medical procedures and equipment have helped service members survive combat wounds at unprecedented rates, according to Brig. Gen. David A. Rubenstein, the Army’s deputy surgeon general.
| Game helps civilian in life-saving situation (04/01/2008)
A longtime America’s Army player became a first responder at a tragic car accident last November by employing life saving techniques he learned by playing the America’s Army game.
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