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Military Hospitals and Clinics

Military hospitals and clinics are the core of the Military Health System. They are located on military bases and posts around the world. Military hospitals and clinics are also referred to as Direct CareDirect care refers to military hospitals and clinics, also known as “military treatment facilities” and “MTFs.”direct care, military treatment facilities or MTFs.

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Immunizations: Building a lifetime of protection

Article
9/9/2015
Staff Sgt. Alisha Slone, 359th Medical Group immunizations technician, immunizes Caiden Payne July 9, 2015, at the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Clinic. August is Immunization Awareness Month and provides an opportunity to highlight the value of immunizations, and focuses on encouraging all people to protect their health by vaccinating against infectious diseases.   (U.S. Air Force photo by Joel Martinez/Released)

Due to our mobile and increasingly global society, a vaccine-preventable disease could easily be introduced into a community at any time given the ease of travel.

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Helping a Hero to Heal

Article
9/2/2015
Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone (right) receives occupational therapy from Capt. Ashley Welsh during an Aug. 31, 2015, appointment at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany.

Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone didn't think twice before he stepped in to thwart a terrorist attack on a Paris train

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Changes coming to TRICARE Pharmacy benefit

Article
9/1/2015
Image of the TRICARE logo.

A new law requires all TRICARE beneficiaries, except active duty service members, to get select brand name maintenance drugs through either TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery or from a military pharmacy.

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Physician, nurse leaders carve out time for patient care

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8/31/2015
Army Col. Evan Renz explains the function of a vacuum-assisted closure device to Indalecio Morales while Morales' wife, Maribel, looks on in the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center at San Antonio Military Medical Center.

One day a month, senior leaders step away from their desks and work a shift in an inpatient ward to get a "pulse check in the organization" and experience day-to-day operations firsthand.

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Vision care coordinator improves eye care for injured service members

Article
8/28/2015
Maj. (Dr.) Lisa Mihora, a 332nd Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron ophthalmologist, prepares to cut a suture during a trauma surgery to repair a patient's eye.

For military service members suffering eye trauma, it is important to find a facility where an ophthalmic surgeon can operate on the eye quickly

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TRICARE pharmacy rules changing for maintenance, brand-name drugs

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8/24/2015
Image of the TRICARE logo.

TRICARE beneficiaries who take certain brand-name medications on a regular basis will be required to fill prescriptions at a military treatment facility or through a mail-in program beginning Oct. 1

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USNS Mercy, Millinocket arrive in Vietnam for Pacific Partnership

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8/21/2015
Crewmembers of the hospital ship USNS Mercy train to participate in a mass casualty drill during Pacific Partnership 2015 recently. The current stop in Vietnam will culminate in a disaster medicine drill where both U.S. and Vietnamese medical personnel will participate both on and off USNS Mercy.  (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William McCann)

The hospital ship USNS Mercy and joint high speed vessel USNS Millinocket arrived in Da Nang, Vietnam, recently for their last mission stops of Pacific Partnership 2015.

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Navy Medical Corps chief highlights future of Navy Medicine

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8/19/2015
A Navy doctor and Corpsmen treat a soldier in a medical exercise.

The future of Navy Medicine is a joint environment that features the Navy working with the medical community of the Army and Air Force.

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Services lines reshape Army Medicine

Article
8/12/2015
Management of surgical practices often varies from Army MTF to MTF. To ensure a consistent patient experience, quality and safety of care, and surgical teams that are ready to deploy, Army Medicine is developing the service line concept for surgical services. (U.S.  Army staff photo)

Army Medicine has been developing service lines for seven clinical or administrative functions: surgical services, telehealth, women's health, behavioral health, primary care, physical performance, and the Integrated Disability Evaluation System.

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SIM Center open house showcases new space, technologies

Article
8/7/2015
San Antonio Military Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine Air Force Capt. Erin Hanlin (left) and Dr. Jeremiah Johnson practice using an Ultrasound 3-D Simulator during the SIM Center open house. (Photo by Robert Shields, BAMC Public Affairs)

Brooke Army Medical Center's Simulation Center held an open house recently to highlight the expansion of centralized simulation training space.

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USNS Comfort arrives for first mission in Dominica

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8/6/2015
U.S. Navy Cmdr. William Cavill examines a child before her surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort in Roseau, Dominica. The medical care is part of Continuing Promise, a civil-military effort that includes humanitarian-civil assistance, medical, dental and veterinary support. Cavill is an anesthesiologist assigned to Naval Hospital Pensacola, Florida. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lance Hartung)

The CP-15 team, NGO volunteers, Dominican medical professionals and Ministry of Health volunteers provided no-cost medical and dental services to more than 1,000 patients during the first day of operations at two locations.

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USNS Mercy continues Pacific Partnership mission

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8/5/2015
Navy surgeons aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy perform cataract surgery on a patient during Pacific Partnership 2015.

The hospital ship USNS Mercy arrived in Subic Bay, Philippines, Aug. 4, for the second half of its mission stop in the host nation for Pacific Partnership 2015.

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Robotic da Vinci arrives at Evans

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8/5/2015
Lieutenant Colonel Kimberly DeVore, chief of Evans Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, practices with the da Vinci surgical system control modular.

In the late 15th Century Leonardo da Vinci created anatomically correct drawings of humans that assisted doctors for centuries. Now in the 21st Century a new da Vinci has arrived at Fort Carson, Colorado to assist Evans Army Community Hospital's doctors.

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Chief Information Officer Bowen reflects on MHS progress in first 22 months

Article
8/4/2015
David Bowen, director of the Health Information Directorate for the Defense Health Agency and chief information officer for Military Health System, addresses attendees at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Health Summit in Washington, D.C., July 31.

Established less than two years ago, the Defense Health Agency is modernizing with the electronic health record and telemedicine, among other advances, as described by MHS CIO David Bowen at AFCEA Health Summit in Washington, D.C.

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Medical innovators of the battlefield

Article
7/31/2015
Colonel Rasmussen conducts surgical training in Pakistan in 2007

In his first deployment to Iraq in 2005, Air Force Col. Todd Rasmussen saw firsthand why innovation was needed to change combat casualty care. An outdated system of evacuating wounded service members from the battlefield no longer worked with the high number of casualties.

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