Observation on the Joint Service Military Medical Facility What Does the Future Hold

Abstract

There has been much discussion regarding the Unified Medical Command (MEDCOM), but not much written about what "right might look like" for the Service medical organizations. Our Service Medical Centers (MEDCENs) are a strategic asset in the healthcare mission and will continue to be as they move into the realm of joint MEDCENs. To extend some recent speculation about joint MEDCENs, this paper describes the prototype organization of the joint MEDCEN model that has been in joint operation for the past ten years: Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Landstuhl, Germany. It further describes the historical transformation of LRMC into the joint organization that it is today, its evolution during peacetime, its integration of joint staffing during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF), its progress to achieve jointness, and efforts to make it part of the organizational culture. The paper concludes with recommendations on what still needs to be done to create a fully joint environment of a tertiary care MEDCEN.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469087

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  • Cynthia A. O'connell

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  • United States Army War College

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  • Biomedical

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  • Army Personnel
  • Combat Support Hospitals
  • Command And Control
  • Delivery Of Health Care
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  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Science
  • Patient Care
  • Personnel Management
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  • Teamwork
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  • War Colleges

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