Communicate the Army Health System (AHS) Planning Flashcards
(68 cards)
Whose role is?
Conducts timely and comprehensive planning to cdetermine medical requirements before, during, and after all phases of operations
Conducts mission analysis to determine the
allocation of AHS resources and planned locations of medical assets
Integrates the medical plans with the tactical plans
Provides commanders with a sketch of medical
capabilities in their area of operations and in the
operational environment
Role of the Medical Planner
Who is this?
is a part of the Commander’s special staff
writes the medical portion
of the battalion operations order
uses the same order
to issue to the platoon during subsequent TLPs
Medical Platoon Leader
as a Staff Officer
What are these?
Conformity
Proximity
Flexibility
Mobility
Continuity
Control
Principles of the AHS
What is?
‒ Ensures that a comprehensive AHS support plan
conforms to tactical plans
‒ Medical assets are arrayed on the battlefield properly
Conformity
What is?
Provide medical support at the right time and place
‒ Medical resources employed as far forward as possible,
without impeding ongoing operations
Proximity
What is?
‒ Ability to shift AHS resources to meet changing
battlefield requirements
‒ Changes in plans or operations make flexibility in AHS
support planning and execution essential
Flexibility
What is?
AHS assets remain in supporting distance to support
maneuvering forces
‒ Vehicle hardening equal to that of supported unit
Mobility
What is?
Patient moves through progressive, phased roles of care
‒ Each Soldier receives the care required to optimize
patient outcome
Continuity
What is?
Resources are efficiently employed
‒ Ensure scope and quality of medical treatment meets professional standards and policies
Control
What are these?
Understanding a situation, envisioning a desired
future condition, and laying out effective ways to
bring that future about
* Results in a plan or order that communicates the
commander’s vision
* Directs action to synchronize forces in time, space, and purpose for achieving objectives and
accomplishing missions
* Apply critical and creative thinking to understand,
visualize, and describe unfamiliar problems and
approaches to solving them
Principles of Planning
What are these?
Be there – maintain a medical presence with the
Soldier
Maintain the health of the Command
Save lives
Clear the battlefield of casualties
Provide state of the art medical care
Ensure early return to duty
Medical Operational Planning Factors
What is this understanding?
what constitutes
success for the mission including the:
1. Operation’s purpose
2. Key tasks
3. Conditions that define the end state
enables the
medical planner to plan AHS support that is
synchronized with the scheme of maneuver and flexible
enough to adapt
- Medical planners may not always receive the
commander’s medical guidance
Understanding Commander’s Intent
Commander’s intent describes what constitutes success for the
mission including ________, ________, and ________?
Operation’s Purpose
Key Tasks
Conditions that define the end state
What is iterative planning
methodology to understand the
situation and mission, develop a course of action, and produce an operation plan or order.
Helps leaders apply
thoroughness, clarity, sound judgment, logic, and professional knowledge so they understand situations, develop options to solve problems, and reach decisions?
Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP)
Who initiate the
MDMP upon receipt or in
anticipation of a mission.
This step alerts all participants of the pending planning requirements, enabling them to determine the amount of time available for planning
and preparation?
Commanders - Receive the Mission
Who (supported by
their staffs) gather, analyze, and synthesize information to orient themselves on the
current conditions of the OE.
They conduct mission
analysis to better understand the situation and problem, and identify what the command must accomplish,when and
where it must be
done, and most importantly
why?
Commanders
Mission Analysis
Who has Broad potential solution to an identified problem.
Generates options for
subsequent analysis and
comparison that satisfy the
commander’s intent and planning guidance.
Planners use the problem
statement, mission statement, commander’s intent, planning guidance, and various knowledge
products developed during
mission analysis when creating COAs?
COA Development
Who Enables commanders and staffs to identify difficulties or coordination problem. It helps them think through the
tentative plan.
Appraises the quality of each COA, but it also uncovers potential execution problems,
decisions, and contingencies.
Influences how commanders and staffs understand a problem and may require the planning process to restart.
COA Analysis
After the decision briefing,
the commander selects the
COA to best accomplish the mission.
If the commander rejects all COAs, the staff starts COA development again.
If the commander modifies a proposed COA or gives the staff an entirely different one, the staff then war-games the new COA.
COA Approval
What Objective process to evaluate COAs independently and
against set evaluation criteria approved by the commander and staff.
Identifies the strengths and weaknesses of COAs, enable selecting a COA with the highest probability of
success, and further
developing it in an OPLAN or OPORD.
COA Comparison
The staff prepares the order or plan by turning the selected COA into a clear, concise concept of
operations and the required supporting information.
The COA statement becomes the concept of operations for the plan.
The COA sketch becomes
the basis for the operation
overlay
Publish OPORD
These are:
Receive the Mission
Mission Analysis
COA Development
COA Analysis
COA Comparison
COA Approval
Publish OPORD
Military Decision-Making Process
Whose role is:
Conduct Medical Estimate
Medical Planner’s Role in MDMP - Mission Analysis
Who supports (also referred to as the Medical Estimate) is a continuous process which systematically examines all aspects of operations. It produces the necessary task organization for decentralized execution and flexible medical support on the battlefield?
The AHS Support Estimate
