text: Direct Patient Care
  Table 10-2. Primary tasks and purposes of theater hospitalization function
  Primary task Purpose
  Provide patient Admission and disposition of patients, maintaining patient records, security of
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  administration patient valuables, statistical reporting, patient privacy policies, and
  services coordination for patient evacuation out of theater.
  Provide consultation Provide specialty medical consultation to Role 1 and 2 medical providers to
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  support enhance the care given in forward areas, potentially eliminating the need to
  evacuate some patients rearward.
  HOSPITAL CENTER
  10-13. The hospital center is a modular MTF designed to provide Role 3 medical capability in a tailored
  organizational structure to support the Army’s varied unified operations missions. The organization was
  designed to support the Army’s requirement to conduct a mix of offensive, defensive and stability and support
  of civil authorities’ tasks simultaneously in a variety of scenarios. Depending on the mission, supported
  population, patient at risks, surgical and medical care providing a surgical and medical organizations. The
  hospital center provides essential care within the theater evacuation policy to either return the patient to duty
  and/or stabilize the patient for evacuation to a definitive care facility outside the AO. The hospital’s assigned
  medical personnel, facilities, equipment, and materials provide the requisite capabilities to render significant
  preventive and curative health care. These highly robust services encompass primary inpatient and outpatient
  care; emergent care; and enhanced medical, surgical, and ancillary capabilities. The modular design of the
  hospital provides the capability to tailor and deploy capabilities as modules or multiple individual capabilities
  that provide incrementally increased medical services. The field hospital (32 bed) may be augmented by one
  or more medical detachments, hospital augmentation teams, or medical teams designed to enhance the
  hospital’s capabilities to provide HSS to the AO.
  10-14. The enhanced organizational design replaces the current CSH providing a more agile, deployable,
  versatile and medically capable hospital.
  10-15. The headquarters and headquarters detachment (HHD), hospital center and field hospital (32 bed)
  are the core and lowest denominator of the hospital organization. The field hospital (32 bed) represents the
  smallest unit that can provide the complete clinical capabilities of a Role 3 MTF. This hospital is deliberately
  designed to be self-supporting while remaining light, highly mobile, and expandable. The HHD, hospital
  center and field hospital (32 bed) are designed as the first increment to be deployed in support of an
  expeditionary force. The HHD, hospital center and field hospital (32 bed) can be expanded incrementally to
  a maximum 240 bed hospitalization capability. The HHD hospital center can command one to two field
  hospitals (32 bed) in separate locations without augmentation. Combinations of the modular units within the
  hospitalization capability would be suitable to support across the competition continuum and fully integrating
  operations with joint, interagency, and multinational partners.
  10-16. Increases in overall clinical functions of the hospitalization capability include:
  * Computed Tomography services.
  * Microbiology laboratory services.
  * Critical care physicians, (intensivists), to manage patients in the intensive care unit.
  * Internal medicine physicians, (hospitalists), to manage patients in the intermediate care ward.
  * Emergency room physician assistants in the triage/pre-operative care and emergency medical
  treatment section.
  * Psychiatry and inpatient neuropsychiatric consultation services.
  * Minimal psychiatry inpatient capabilities.
  * Increased capacity of intensive care beds.
  * Improvements in versatility and agility.
  * Command and communications capability to conduct split base operations indefinitely without
  augmentation.