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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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Air Force's first robotic surgery training course established at Keesler

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10/31/2016

The Keesler Medical Center recently acquired two da Vinci Xis, which are the newest robotic surgical systems available. One surgical robot is set up as part of the Institute for Defense Robotic Surgical Education to assist surgeons in getting their official robotic surgery credentials. (Courtesy photo)

Keesler Air Force Base surgeons are forging a new path in military medicine by being the first in the Air Force to use one of the most advanced robotic surgery systems available

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EAMC recognized for high surgical quality for second consecutive year

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10/28/2016

Eisenhower Army Medical Center has been recognized by the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program for its safety initiatives and quality of care again

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Military docs using less invasive treatments to fight cancers

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10/27/2016

Army Maj. Nicolas Cahanding with Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, looks at a brain image. (U.S. Army photo by Robert Whetstone)

Interventional oncology, a less invasive way of treating cancers, is part of the Military Health System’s larger effort to eradicate the diseases

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Virtual medicine will be norm in future crises, says health chief

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10/25/2016

In a demonstration of the telehealth process at Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, clinical staff nurse Army Lt. Maxx P. Mamula examines mock patient Army Master Sgt. Jason H. Alexander using a digital external ocular camera.

The future battlespace may be contested to such a degree that medevacs may be impossible and field hospitals, much less forward operating bases, may not be located nearby

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Army Medicine fights cancer with advanced treatments

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10/13/2016

Early detection of the breast cancer can provide early treatment for the service member and or their beneficiaries. For those women diagnosed with localized (Stage 1) breast cancer there is a more than 98 percent probability that they will survive five or more years. (U.S. Air Force photo by L.A. Shively)

Army Medicine is diagnosing and treating service members with cancer using state-of-the-art techniques and tools that many civilian hospitals can't provide

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Air Force, Army team save lives at the DoD’s only Level 1 trauma center

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10/11/2016

Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Kjell Ballard, emergency room resident, asks a patient to make the OK sign to check mobility of the fingers at the San Antonio Military Medical Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Serving 20 counties in the Texas region, the SAMMC Emergency Department treats roughly 200 patients a day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)

As the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the Defense Department, the medical facility is equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from major traumatic injuries

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Cochlear implant opens up the world for Army colonel

Article

9/22/2016

Dr. Elizabeth Searing (right) makes initial adjustments via a computer to Lt. Col. James Morrison's cochlear implant. Dr. April Luxner, an audiologist with Cochlear Corporation, was on hand to witness Morrison's reactions to hearing with his right ear after 12 years of deafness. (U.S. Army photo by Jeff Troth)

In the past 12 years, Army Lt. Col. James Morrison has seen ear, head and neck, and neurology specialists at the six posts where he was stationed

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Nurse Advice Line

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9/16/2016

You can call the Nurse Advice Line 24/7, at no cost to you, to talk to a registered nurse who can answer your urgent care questions, help you find a doctor, schedule next-day appointments at military hospitals and clinics and more.

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Hospital's sterile-processing techs are 'Gladiators' of patient safety

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9/14/2016

Army Staff Sgt. Oscar Domino (left), operating room technician, hands a sterile pack to Army Maj. Jerry Rivera-Santiago, sterile processing's officer in charge. Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center's Sterile Processing Department assembles and packs more than 400 surgical units monthly. (U.S. Army photo by Gloria Montgomery)

Sterile-processing medical technicians are the multipliers of hospital safety who clean, disinfect and sterilize the hospital and dental clinic's surgical tools

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Air Force, Army medics train together for MEDEX 16

Article

8/31/2016

Army Capt. Gregory Lacy, 228th Combat Support Hospital urologist, (center), assists Army Col. George Newton, 228th CSH general surgeon, (right), while Army Spc. Marinel Armstead, 228th CSH surgical scrub technician, (left), observes during MEDEX. During the medical exercise, Soldiers integrated with Airmen to train for responding to potential real world contingency operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Araceli Alarcon)

Airmen and Soldiers integrated their assets, personnel and procedures, increasing the capabilities of Misawa Air Base’s medical treatment facility

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Survival rates improving for Soldiers wounded in combat, says Army surgeon general

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8/26/2016

About 92 percent of Soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have made it home alive

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Air Force and Navy medical teams integrate at sea

Article

8/11/2016

Medical personnel from the Air Force and Navy treat a simulated casualty during a mass casualty drill aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio. San Antonio is deployed with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.

Airmen from the U.S. Air Force 379th Expeditionary Medical Group (EMG), Mobile Field Surgical Team (MFST) and Expeditionary Critical Care Team (ECCT) are embarked aboard amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio.

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BAMC one of several hospitals participating in emergency airway study

Article

7/28/2016

Army National Guard Sgt. Bobby Steward (left), a medic, assists Army National Guard Capt. Nicole Foster, a physician assistant as she intubates an airway on a training mannequin.

National Emergency Airway Registry is a multi-center, prospective emergency medicine led registry

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Brooke Army Medical Center Transparency

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7/28/2016

This video highlights Brooke Army Medical Center's transparency initiatives and what they are doing to publish information about Patient Safety, Health Outcomes, Quality of Care and Patient Satisfaction.

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An Army specialist helps create a possible Zika vaccine

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7/22/2016

U.S. Army Spc. Chris Springer flashes a smile as he puts some of his work into one of the facility’s many refrigerators. (DoD photo by Katie Lange)

An Army specialist is one of very few service members to get to work on the Zika vaccine

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