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Anvwhere Navy Medicine Official Magazine of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Medicine Vol. 104 No.1 SPECIAL ISSUE contents Surgeon General of the Navy Chief, BUMED Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan special issue Deputy Surgeon General Deputy Chief, BUMED Rear Adm. Michael H. Mittelman 4 ADMIRAL’S CALL Force Master Chief FORCM(FMF) Sherman E. Boss Public Affairs Officer 8 NAVY MEDICINE 101 Capt. J.A. “Cappy” Surette, APR Deputy Public Affairs Officer 10 BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY Shoshona Pilip-Florea Managing Editor 12 NAVY MEDICINE EAST Paul R. Ross 16 NAVY MEDICINE WEST Navy Medicine is the professional magazine of the Navy Medical Department community. Its purpose is to educate its readers on Navy Medicine missions and programs. This magazine will also draw upon the medical department’s rich historical legacy to instill a sense of pride and 20 NAVY MEDICINE NCA professionalism among the Navy Medical Department community and to enhance reader awareness of the increasing relevance of Navy Medicine in and for our nation’s defense. 24 NAVY MEDICINE SUPPORT COMMAND The opinions and assertions herein are the personal views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or the Department of the Navy. The use of a name of any specific manufacturer, commercial product, 28 NAVY MEDICINE LOCATIONS MAP commodity or service does not imply the endorsement by the Department of the Navy or the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. NAVY MEDICINE, (ISSN 0895-8211 USPS 316-070) is published quarterly by the Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 30 NAVY MEDICINE RESEARCH COMMAND Washington, DC 20372-5300. Periodical postage paid at Washington, DC. Authorization The Secretary of the Navy has determined that this publication is 32 NAVY MEDICINE LOGISTICS COMMAND necessary in the transaction of business as required by law. NAVY MEDICINE is published from appropriated funds by authority of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in accordance with Navy Publications and Printing Regulations P-35. 33 MEDICAL HOME PORT Guidelines for submission to Navy Medicine. ABOUT NAVY MEDICINE: 34 AFLOAT MEDICAL CAPABILITIES NAVY MEDICINE is published quarterly Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall. Please contact Shoshona Pilip-Florea ([email protected]. mil) for deadline of present issue in progress. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: 38 MEDICAL CORPS Articles must be between 600-1,000 words. All articles must be present tense/active voice. Photos must be minimum 300 dpi. 39 NURSE CORPS Photos showing action are preferred. All photos must be accompanied by a caption and photo credit. Subjects considered: Scuttlebutt: Stories about activities at MTFs and the field. 40 DENTAL CORPS Photo Album: Action shots from across Navy Medicine. Feature Articles: Stories featuring interesting contributions of Navy Medicine to military operations including everything from combat support to Humanitarian Relief/Disaster Response will be considered. 41 MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS Please contact Shoshona Pilip-Florea ([email protected]. mil) for current theme of issue in progress. R & D and Innovations: Any new processes and/or research and 42 HOSPITAL CORPS development news. Quality Care: Anything that improves the quality of care for our patients. IT, QA: Any articles showing how Navy Medicine is utilizing the electronic 46 WOUNDED WARRIOR CARE age. Shipmates: Anything interesting about our shipmates working in the healthcare field in the Department of the Navy. All submissions must be accompanied by complete contact information 50 MENTAL HEALTH CAPABILITIES for author. In the event there is more than one author please assign one author to be primary correspondent. 54 PROJECT FOCUS Feedback Welcome Navy Medicine Magazine Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 55 NCCOSC Communications Directorate 2300 E Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20372-5300 E-mail: [email protected] Subscriptions are for sale by the Superintendent of Documents Subscriptions may be ordered online, via phone, fax, or e-mail, on the cover or postal mail. To order online, visit the U.S. Government Printing Office bookstore at http://bookstore.gpo.gov Service members and civilians embarked To order by phone, call toll-free 1-866-512-1800 or, in the DC metro on board USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) are area, call 202-512-1800 Send e-mail orders to contact [email protected] transported by boat to the Killick Haitian Send mail orders to: Coast Guard Base surgical screening site U.S. Government Printing Office P.O. Box 979050 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during Continuing St. Louis, MO 63197-9000 Promise 2011. (Photo by Mass Communication Annual cost: $23 U.S.; $32.20 Foreign (4 issues/year). Specialist 2nd Class Eric C. Tretter) Address Changes (Please include old address): Navy Medicine Magazine Visit us online at www.med.navy.mil Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs Office Twitter: twitter.com/NavyMedicine 2300 E Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20372-5300 E-mail: [email protected] Facebook: U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 22 Owners’ and Operators’ Manual 2012 3 admiral’s call a s we launch this second port the warfighter and their families. edition of Navy Medicine’s Our number one priority as Navy Owners’ and Operators’ Medicine moves forward will be to drive manual, I am pleased to with strategic vision to a new position say that the state of Navy Medicine is in order to maintain the equities and strong. I am proud and humbled to be capabilities needed from our organiza- at the helm of this 63,000 person or- tion. My goal as the new Chief of the ganization and though numerous chal- Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is lenges abound this year, I sleep better at to foster a culture of leadership at our night given the leadership team I inher- headquarters in Washington, D.C., ited and where I know we are going to that leads and is responsive to your go together. This whole special issue of issues. Communication will also be the magazine tells our story. It provides essential to our success. We will be the “who and what” of Navy Medicine focusing on strategic message align- so my goal here is to share some of my ment across the Navy Medicine en- thoughts with you as we complete the terprise so you have a better sense transition to a new leadership team and of what leadership is thinking to orient ourselves to the real-time situ- better empower your teams on ational analysis of where we are, what the deckplates. we do, and where I believe we need to I have six key areas of interest 2. Readiness: The ability to be ready be going. that will be the bedrock of my tenure as and prepared to respond to the needs Headlines evolve daily and we know Navy Surgeon General. These include: of our nation is inherent in our ethos. there will be a shifting landscape and 1. Support of the War Fighter: Care We need to maintain a persistent state new opportunities as we align ourselves for the warfighter is why we exist. We of high readiness so that we are always with the strategic imperatives and direc- must provide world-class care from the ready to respond to needs to support ev- tion of the Chief of Naval Operations battlefield to bedside. This is our top erything from kinetic action to humani- and the Commandant of the Marine priority. Our combat casualty care capa- tarian assistance and disaster response Corps. It is the responsibility of our bility represents a continuum of training missions. Navy Medicine’s hallmark has leaders, myself included, to take their from battlefield to bedside to rehabilita- always been we are already there or we direction and vision and implement it tive care and support. It includes care get there soonest! When the world dials into what we do each day and how we for the caregiver and leveraging technol- 911, it is not to schedule an appoint- shape and utilize our capabilities to sup- ogy to optimize care. ment, and I am proud of the Navy / Marine Corps team and our role in lean- ing forward in this effort. Navy Medicine personnel 3. Value: We must look intently at the value of what we provide to our ben- eficiaries. We must think of the concept serve as ambassadors of “quality multiplied by capability all divided by cost.” Think of “value,” as the numerator or denominator goes up worldwide and are or down. You should anticipate hearing me ask a lot about the value we provide. I want that to become part of your the heart and soul of the battle rhythm in all you do as you evalu- ate current processes and proposed ones. U.S. Navy as a “Global We will take a hard look at our unique capabilities as well as those we provide with others...and we will talk value as Force for Good.” we make both strategic and tactical deci- sions. 4 Navy Medicine Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert and Vice Adm. Adam M. Robinson welcome Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan as Naval Department’s new top uniformed medical offi cer. (Photo courtesy of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Public Affairs) 4. Health Care Informatics: We will those best informed to provide input so not make true headway on the cost or that more light than heat is generated. Vice Adm. Nathan access to health care without continued 6. Global Engagement. Many of our Remarks at Navy leverage of information management missions have a global footprint which is Surgeon General and information technology at all levels an important part of our nation’s diplo- Change of Command of care. We have many skilled people matic presence around the world. Navy working hard on this but I expect our Medicine is forward deployed with our Use your Smart Phone leaders to make this a priority and create warfighters overseas and our research to view this video by that expectation at the deck plate level. units provide a global health benefit downloading a QR Code reader and scanning the Rest assured that I will work strategically around the world. Navy Medicine per- QR Code. The video can at the headquarters level to find enter- sonnel serve as ambassadors worldwide also be viewed at http:// prise solutions. and are the heart and soul of the U.S. www.youtube.com/ 5. Jointness: The synergy of creating Navy as a “Global Force for Good.” watch?v=bUQwQcusPzw efficiencies, removing redundancies, and I am excited about the future! I am allowing transparency will elevate care encouraged by the opportunities and and reduce costs. Accepting a “Joint the shaping that will occur as we find culture” does not mean loss of identity our new equilibrium in a dynamic and or service culture. There is amazing joint evolving environment. I am grateful we care on the battlefield and we are seeing are shipmates and I look forward to roll- joint staffing at major medical centers ing up our sleeves together and doing and within our graduate medical educa- what we do best, providing “World-class tion programs. Joint command-and- Care...Anytime, Anywhere!” control cannot happen overnight and must grow from the deck plates with coordinated efforts from the services and --Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan Owners’ and Operators’ Manual 2012 5 6 Navy Medicine Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Ramone Resop, left, conducts medical response training with Sailors aboard the countermeasures ship USS Ardent (MCM 12). Ardent was underway with elements of Combined Task Force 52 participating in a Joint mine counter-measure exercise with NATO, U.S., U.K. and French forces. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lewis Hunsaker) Owners’ and Operators’ Manual 2012 7 navy medicine 101 seamless and comprehensive approach what we do to their recovery. We help them to heal force health protection in body, mind, and spirit. Our focus is The foundation of Navy Medicine multi-disciplinary-based care, bringing is Force Health Protection. It’s what together medical treatment providers, we do and why we exist. In executing social workers, case managers, behav- our Force Health Protection mission, ioral health providers, and chaplains. the 63,000 active duty and reservists, We are working closely with our line government civilians, and non-medical counterparts with programs like the contractors of Navy and Marine Corps Marine Corps’ Wounded Warrior Regi- Medicine are engaged in all aspects of ments that coordinate with Battalion expeditionary medical operations in sup- Surgeons, Deployed Units, and Medical port of our warfighters. The continuum Treatment Facilities to set up anticipated of care we provide includes all dimen- medical appointments, ensuring a ma- sions of physical and mental well-being. jority of medical needs are assessed prior This is our center of gravity and we have to demobilization. Similarly, the Navy and will continue to ensure our Sailors and Coast Guard’s Safe Harbor program and Marines are medically prepared to with its national network of Navy Op- meet their worldwide missions. erational Support Centers support the Nowhere is our commitment to full-spectrum recovery process for Sail- Force Health Protection more evident ors, and Marines, and their families. that in our active engagement in mili- Based on the types of injuries that we tary operations in Iraq and Afghani- are seeing, Navy Medicine continues to stan. As these overseas contingency adapt our capabilities to best treat these operations evolve, and in many respects conditions. When we saw a need on become increasingly more dangerous, the West Coast for returning wounded we are seeing burgeoning demand to warriors with amputations, we estab- provide expeditionary combat casualty lished the Comprehensive Combat and care in support of joint operations. The Complex Casualty Care (C5) facility at Navy Medicine team of doctors, nurses, the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Myslin, a medical offi cer with corpsmen, dentists, and mental health C5 manages severely injured and ill pa- 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, examines an Afghan child during providers is working in tandem with the tients from medical evacuation through a combined medical engagement in Afghanistan, Army and Air Force medical personnel inpatient care, outpatient rehabilitation, (Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher R. Rye) and coalition forces to ensure the physi- and eventual return to active duty or cal and mental well-being of our troops transition from the military. We are also Navy Medicine Video and civilians alike. Our support includes working to expand utilization of Project Use your Smart Phone to view the dozen U.S. Marine Corps’ Shock C.A.R.E -- Comprehensive Aesthetic this video by downloading Trauma Platoons that do immediate re- Recovery Effort -- across the Services. a QR Code reader and suscitative surgery on the battlefield. This initiative follows the C5 model by scanning the QR Code. The ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach video can also be viewed support to our to care, while focusing on providing at http://www.youtube.com/ warfighters and watch?v=mYaWUeQhJ1Y state-of-the-art plastic and reconstruc- caring for our tive surgery for our wounded warriors. caregivers We are also aggressively working to Caring for our Sailors and Ma- reduce the stigma surrounding psycho- rines at home and abroad is our first logical health and operational stress mission, but there is no greater honor concerns by partnering with our line than the opportunity to provide care counterparts in programs such as Navy to our wounded, ill, and injured. They Operational Stress Control, USMC are heroes and we, who are fortunate Combat Operational Stress Control, enough to care for them, understand FOCUS (Families Overcoming Under this responsibility. As our wounded Stress), Caregiver Occupational Stress warriors return from combat to begin Control (CgOSC), and our suicide pre- the healing process, they deserve a vention programs. 8 Navy Medicine global engagement our regional alliances and empower jured physically, and many of whom are humanitarian partners around the world. With each suffering psychologically from mild to assistance/disaster successful deployment, we increase our severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or response interoperability with host and partner Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Navy Medicine’s mission is one with nations, non-governmental organiza- The challenge of healing and caring for a truly global footprint. We are forward tions and the interagency. these men and women, in body, mind, deployed with our warfighters overseas and spirit is a long-term one that will and our research units provide a global excellence in research last the best part of this century. The health benefit around the world. Navy and development young wounded warriors of today will Medicine personnel serve as ambassa- Navy Medicine would not be able to mature into tomorrow’s aging heroes. dors worldwide and are the heart and accomplish its mission without a vibrant How military medicine takes on this soul of the U.S. Navy as a “Global Force Research and Development (R&D) challenge will set the stage for decades for Good.” community. The work that our research- to come, especially with respect to the Our humanitarian assistance/disaster ers do is having a direct impact on the quality, accessibility, and reliability of response (HA/DR) missions in direct treatment we are able to provide, from support veterans and their families will support of the Navy’s Maritime Strategy the battlefield to the bedside. Many receive. continue to expand because they contin- wounded warriors are walking, talk- Navy Medicine’s is committed to its ually prove to be highly successful. With ing, and leading productive lives today Core Concept of Care which is patient past support to critical missions like because of the research and medical and family-centered care. It is at the Operation Unified Response in Haiti advancements in wound management, epicenter of everything Navy Medi- following the 2010 earthquake, Navy wound repair and reconstruction, as cine does. This concept is elegant in its Medicine serves the international com- well as extremity and internal hemor- simplicity yet extraordinarily powerful: munity as a global leader in HA/DR. rhage control and phantom limb pain in It identifies each patient as a participant More recently, Navy Medicine amputees. Our R&D programs are truly in his or her own health care and recog- personnel provided essential support force multipliers to Navy Medicine’s nizes the vital importance of the family, to Operation Tomodachi after the success and enable us to remain agile in military culture, and the military chain devastating earthquake and tsunami in the world-class health care we provide to of command in supporting patients. The Japan in 2011. As the foremost experts our service members and beneficiaries. goal moving forward is for this Core in radiation health issues, our Navy Concept of Care to resonate through- Medicine Radiation Health Officers navy medicine looks to out the system and guide all their future and Radiation Health Techs answered the future actions. To this end, Navy Medicine is the international call for assistance to Navy Medicine -- World-Class continually working to ensure patient Japan and provided paramount support Care…Anytime, Anywhere. This poi- satisfaction focusing on increased access, following the Fukushima Nuclear plant gnant phrase describes Navy Medicine’s coordination of services, and safety. In disaster. They provided onsite monitor- mission and drives their operational addition, also wanting providers to have ing of radioactive fallout, counseling to tempo. Despite Navy’s Medicine’s recent the capabilities and resources to deliver those affected and advice to Navy and successes, challenges still loom on the the best clinical practices in a healing Marine commanding generals and com- horizon with respect to the continuous environment. This is an important stra- batant commanders in the Pacific Area flow of service members returning home tegic goal as Navy Medicine looks to the of Responsibility. Their presence and from a war zone, some of whom are in- future. expertise provided relief and solace to severely anxious population. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T- The Navy hospital ships also con- AH 19) transfers cargo aboard duct planned deployment humanitar- the Royal Australian Navy ian assistance missions where they work heavy landing craft HMAS with local ministries of health to bring Labuan (L128) while anchored near Timor-Leste supporting care to the people of foreign nations. Pacifi c Partnership. (Photo by USNS Comfort’s mission in Central Mass Communication Specialist and South America and the Caribbean 2nd Class Eddie Harrison) for Continuing Promise 2011, as well as USNS Mercy’s upcoming 2012 Pacific Partnership mission to Southeast Asia provide further evidence of our contin- ued commitment to the global efforts to foster security and stability worldwide. Our hospital ships are executing our Maritime Strategy by building the trust and cooperation we need to strengthen Owners’ and Operators’ Manual 2012 9 bureau of medicine and surgery The Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) signed by Congress in 2005 will permanently change the face of BUMED’s current location. It stipulates that BUMED will relocate to a centrally located headquarters facility along with the Surgeons General from our sister services and the TRICARE Management Activity (TMA.) This realignment and move is expected to be completed in 2012.(Photo by Capt. J.A. “Cappy” Surette, BUMED Public Affairs Officer) The Navy Bureau of Medicine and time, anywhere. BUMED is additionally responsible for Surgery (BUMED) is the headquar- BUMED is the site where the poli- the medical support of the U.S. Marine ters command for Navy Medicine. cies and direction for Navy Medicine Corps. Under the leadership of the Navy are developed to ensure our patient and BUMED, presently located on a tract Surgeon General, Vice Adm. Matthew family-centered care vision is carried of ground adjacent to the State Depart- L. Nathan, Navy Medicine provides out. ment, overlooks the Potomac River, Lin- high quality health care to beneficiaries coln Memorial, and Arlington National in wartime and in peacetime. Highly a brief history Cemetery, and has been at this site since trained Navy Medicine personnel BUMED was established as part of 1942. Building 2 was originally built in deploy with Sailors and Marines world- the Department of the Navy by an Act 1844 as the first U.S. Naval Observa- wide, providing critical mission support of Congress on Aug. 31, 1842. It is the tory, and has been designated a National aboard ship, in the air, under the sea centralized administrative organization Historic Landmark. and on the battlefield. At the same time, of the Medical Department, located The Observatory moved to its pres- Navy Medicine’s military and civilian in Washington, D.C. As such, it is the ent quarters on Massachusetts Avenue, health care professionals are provid- guardian of health care for the Navy and Northwest, D.C., in 1893 and the ing care for uniformed services’ family U.S. Marine Corps. BUMED exercises property was turned over to BUMED. members and retirees at military treat- direct control over naval hospitals, medi- In 1895 the Naval Museum of Hygiene ment facilities around the globe. Every cal centers, dental clinics, preventive moved into the old Observatory, and day, no matter what the environment, medicine units, and technical schools the U.S. Naval Medical School moved Navy Medicine is ready to care for those for Medical Department personnel both to this location on May 27, 1902. By in need, providing world-class care, any- inside the U.S. and around the world. an Act of Congress on March 3, 1903, 10 Navy Medicine

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