text: Direct Patient Care
  Thus, Role 1 and 2 MTFs are not hospitals. The Army Medicine provides Role 3 medical capabilities with
  two organizations, the currently fielded CSH and the recently designed and Army approved hospital center.
  Both 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. Inpatient refers to a person admitted to and treated within a Role 3 and 4 hospital and who
  cannot be returned to duty within the same calendar day (ATP 4-02.10). While outpatient is a person
  receiving medical/dental examination and/or treatment from medical personnel and in a status other than
  being admitted to a hospital. Included in this category is the person who is treated and retained (held) in a
  medical treatment facility (such as a Role 2 facility) other than a hospital (ATP 4-02.10). 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 theater hospitals 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.
  10-6. Theater hospital capabilities include triage/emergency care, outpatient services, inpatient care,
  pharmacy, clinical laboratory, blood banking, radiology, physical therapy, MEDLOG, operational dental care
  (emergency and essential dental care), oral and maxillofacial surgery, nutrition care, and patient
  administration services. Triage is the process of sorting casualties based on need for treatment,
  evacuation, and available resources. Triage consists of the immediate sorting of patients according to type
  and seriousness of injury, and likelihood of survival, and the establishment of priority for treatment and
  evacuation to assure medical care of the greatest benefit to the largest number. The categories of triage are:
  MINIMAL (OR AMBULATORY) - those who require limited treatment and can be rapidly returned to duty;
  IMMEDIATE- patients requiring immediate care to save life, limb or eyesight; DELAYED- patients who,
  after emergency treatment, incur little additional risk by delaying further treatment; and EXPECTANT-
  patients so critically injured that only complicated and prolonged treatment will improve the chances of
  survival.
  PRIMARY TASKS
  10-7. Table 10-2 on page 10-4 discusses the primary tasks and purposes of theater hospitalization function.
  COMBAT SUPPORT HOSPITALS
  10-8. The CSH provides hospitalization and outpatient care for all classes of patients within the AO. It is
  comprised of a headquarters and headquarters detachment and two hospital companies (one 84-bed and one
  164-bed company)
  10-9. The CSH provides hospitalization for up to 248 patients and treatment for all classes of patients.
  10-10. Surgical capacity is based on six operating room tables staffed for 96 operating table hours per day.
  The six operating room tables are contained in three operating room shelters. Surgical capabilities include
  general, orthopedic, thoracic, urological, gynecological, and oral maxillofacial.
  10-11. Other capabilities include:
  * Medical command and control of organic and attached elements include AHS planning, policies,
  and support operations with the hospital AO.
  * Emergency treatment to receive, triage, and resuscitate casualties to include civilians and enemy
  prisoners of war, as required.
  * Consultation services for inpatient and outpatient support.
  * Pastoral care for staff and patients, as well as ethical advisement on bioethics or end of life issues.
  * Pharmacy, psychiatry, public health nursing, clinical laboratory, blood banking, radiology,
  physical therapy, and nutrition care services.
  * Medical administrative and logistical services.
  * Operational dental care treatment.
  * Medical logistics support to the FST/FRST, when attached.