Reducing Costs, Increasing Capability: A New Equipping Strategy for Combat Support Hospitals

Abstract

Key Points: (1) The Army's current strategy for equipping Combat Support Hospitals (CSHs) does not cost-effectively manage medical equipment maintenance and obsolescence; (2) When not deployed, active component CSHs want more medical capability at home station but less equipment to maintain; nondeployed Army Reserve CSHs want even less equipment; (3) A RAND Arroyo Center team used input from CSH commanders and others to design equipment sets for home stations that would substantially reduce maintenance and costs; (4) The overall equipping strategy would provide commanders with local equipment sets that meet the training needs they described, reduce the total amount of equipment, require more sharing of equipment, and allow affordable, ongoing equipment modernization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA552787

Entities

People

  • Susan K. Woodward

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Support
  • Combat Support Hospitals
  • Corporations
  • Cost Reductions
  • Costs
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Homeland Security
  • Hospitals
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Training
  • Warfare
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.