U.S. Army Medical Department journal
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At the request of the Multinational Corps-Iraq (MNC-I), the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine deployed a Special Augmentation Response Team-Preventive Medicine to support MNC-I and preventive medicine assets in Iraq in order to complete environmental health site assessments (EHSAs) for major forward operating bases. Prior to the mission, there was a lot of concern from the field on what constituted an EHSA and how to conduct one. ⋯ The 90-day mission involved conducting 2 iterations of EHSA training to preventive medicine detachments and brigade combat team Environmental Science and Engineering Officers, conducting site assessments of major forward operating bases in Iraq, and completing over 25 EHSA reports. This article provides an overview of the EHSA process, the site assessment, and the final report in order to demystify the EHSA process and its usefulness to preventive medicine personnel.
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The Army Medical Department's (AMEDD) efforts to provide on-target combat health and combat health service support to the Warfighter continue to evolve. Within the framework of modularizing the force, The AMEDD integrated the medical battalion (area support), medical battalion (evacuation), and medical logistics battalion into a single multifunctional medical battalion (MMB), approved by Headquarters, Department of the Army, to support the force commander on the ground. In 2005, the 61st MMB (Provisional), the first of its type, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 05-07 to provide levels I and II area medical support, ground evacuation, dental, optometry, combat and operational stress control, veterinary services, and preventive medicine. ⋯ The number of medical detachments assigned to an MMB is situational and based upon the operational requirements of the combatant commander on the ground. The 61st MMB commander faced a unique challenge in evaluating mission success for the individual medical detachments, as each possessed slightly different capabilities as well as number and diversity of inspections covered within their respective area of responsibility. This article describes an extensive matrix, developed by the medical detachment commanders, to measure mission success and provide a useful tool for the MMB commander.
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