Communicate AHS Medical C2 Flashcards
Communicate the Army Health System Medical Command and Control (C2)
Command and Control (definition)
Authority and direction exercised by a commander over assigned and attached forces to accomplish the mission
Mission Command (definition)
Army’s approach to command and control which empowers subordinate decision making and encourages appropriate decentralized execution
Medical Command and Control (definition)
The medical commander (command) and staff (control) synchronize the ten medical functions within the protection and sustainment warfighting functions.
* Includes synchronizing technical, clinical, and medical control of all FHP and HSS support.
Medical Command and Control Tasks
- Command forces
- Control operations
- Drive the operations process
- Establish the C2 system
- Provide technical supervision
Medical Command (MEDCOM), Deployment Support (DS)
- One per theater
- Personnel: MG, CSM
- Mission: Command and control of echelon above brigade (EAB) medical units providing AHS support in theater. Serves as the theater medical command within the area of operations.
MEDCOM (DS) Regional Focus
- Establishing linkages to civilian and governmental authorities.
- Develop regional strategies to mitigatehealth threats.
- Enhance host-nation government’s legitimacy with the affected population and reduce human suffering.
- Shape the security environment by mitigating adverse health conditions impacting strong social, economic, and political infrastructures.
- Medical experts can deploy to provide consultation, training support, and advice to assist host nations.
- Military medical training exercises can be mutually beneficial to the host nation and U.S. forces
Medical Brigade (Support) - MEDBDE (SPT)
- One per 2-6 subordinate battalions
- Personnel: COL, CSM
- Mission: Headquarters and headquarters company. Organize, resource, train, sustain, deploy support assigned and attached healthcare capabilities to provide flexible, responsive, and effective HSS and FHP to supported force.
MEDCDE (SPT) Capabilities
- C2 of subordinate and attached units.
- Operational medical augmentation to Role 2 BCT medical companies.
- Advises commanders on the medical aspects of their operations.
- Medical staff planning, operational and technical supervision, and administrative assistance for subordinate or attached units.
- Medical consultation and education services, such as: Operational Public Health, BH, control and supervision of Class VIII supply and resupply
Medical Battalion (Multifunctional) - MMB
- One per 3-6 subordinate company/detachment size units
- Personnel: LTC, CSM
- Mission: to provide scalable, flexible, and modular medical command and control, administrative assistance, logistical support, and technical supervision capability for assigned and attached medical functional organizations (companies, detachments, and teams) task-organized for support of deployed BCTs and EAB forces
MMB Capabilities
- Provides array of health care units assigned and attached based on METT-TC(I).
- Conducts operational planning for assigned and attached medical functional companies, detachments, and teams.
- Provides consultation and technical advice on operational public health.
- Includes campaign support element and early entry element (which may deploy independently or task-organized with a field hospital or hospital center as a medical multifunctional task force).
- Detachments / teams assigned or attached to the MMB may be further attached to the BSMC to augment / reconstitute BCT medical elements
Medical Commander (roles and responsibilities)
- Main driver of medical C2
- Decision-making guided by analysis (TLPs / MDMP), judgement (professional experience, knowledge, education, intelligence, and intuition), and staff input.
- The mission command concept demands that subordinate leaders at all echelons exercise disciplined initiative and aggressive action to independently accomplish the mission within the commander’s intent.
- Mission command enables the medical commander at all echelons to focus on both accomplishing their higher commander’s intent and on critical decisions only they can make
What role does a Command Surgeon NOT have?
A command surgeon is NOT a commander/does NOT have command authority
Command Surgeon roles and responsibilities
- Responsible for planning, coordination, synchronization, and integration of AHS Support at all echelons. Also responsible for portion of Annex E (Protection) and Annex F (Sustainment) of the operations order
- Medical Readiness Responsibilities:
- Reviews operational health threats and establishes additional appropriate medical readiness requirements
- Advises Unit Commanders on individual Soldier deployability (case by case)
Unit Commander
- Unit commanders are responsible for monitoring their Soldiers’ Individual Medical Readiness (IMR) and ensuring compliance with all the combined elements of medical readiness
Medical Operations Officer (MEDO) responsibilities
- Track medical readiness of unit (BN, BDE, etc.)
- Project 90 days out for Medical Readiness Compliance
- Plan Soldier Readiness Processing (SRP) and reserve resources
- Liaise with company medics
- BPT brief profiles, MAR2, and Medical Board (IDES) updates
