Medical Equipment Concentration Sites: A Management Solution for Army Reserve Medical Equipment Repair and Training Needs

摘要

The author suggests medical equipment concentration sites as a possible solution to the Army Reserve's deficiencies found by the Army Audit Agency. The Army Reserve has a serious problem. It failed a 2008 audit, conducted by the Government Accountability Office and the Army Audit Agency, of its medical equipment maintenance program. The program's failures were also the focus of a RAND Corporation study that was presented at the August 2009 FORSCOM (Army Forces Command) Combat Support Hospital (CSH) Conference. The study showed that most of the medical equipment sets in the Army Reserve are not mission capable. The sustainment and maintenance of Reserve component medical equipment sets have taken a back seat to other priorities and have not received appropriate attention and funding. Moreover, the existing medical equipment sets are too large and cumbersome for units to maintain properly.