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Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 1200 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202-5050 4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2665 RAND URL: http://www.rand.org To order RAND documents or to obtain additional information, contact Distribution Services: Telephone: (310) 451-7002; Fax: (310) 451-6915; Email: [email protected] Preface This monograph documents findings and recommendations from the RAND Arroyo Center project “AMEDD’s [Army Medical Department’s] Equipping and Maintenance Solution to ARFORGEN [Army Force Generation].” The objective of the project was to develop and evaluate alternative strategies for equipping the Army’s Combat Sup- port Hospitals (CSHs) that would meet their equipment needs in each of the readiness pools of the ARFORGEN cycle. The study identified a new equipping and maintenance strategy that has the potential to enable the Army to reduce the cost of equipping and maintaining its CSHs at fully modernized levels, providing them with equipment that is newer and in better condition on average than what they have now. Because the proposed strategy represents radical change in several respects, the study recommends a phased imple- mentation, beginning with the fielding of new equipment set designs to several active and reserve CSHs at home station. Evaluation of the performance and effects of these sets will permit fine tuning of the proposed strategy. This research was sponsored by the Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command/The Surgeon General. It was conducted within RAND Arroyo Center. The research was managed jointly by RAND Arroyo Center’s Military Logistics Pro- gram, directed by Ken Girardini, and the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research, co-directed by Sue Hosek and Terri Tanielian. RAND Arroyo Center, part of the RAND Corporation, is the United States Army’s federally funded research and development center for policy studies and analyses. The RAND Center for Mili- tary Health Policy Research is a joint endeavor of RAND Arroyo Center and RAND Health. The Project Unique Identification Code (PUIC) for the project that produced this document is MCCSG08834. iii iv New Equipping Strategies for Combat Support Hospitals For more information on RAND Arroyo Center, contact the Director of Oper- ations (telephone 310-393-0411, extension 6419; fax 310-451-6952; email Marcy_ [email protected]), or visit Arroyo’s web site at http://www.rand.org/ard/. Contents Preface . ................................................................................................ iii Figures . ................................................................................................vii Tables . ................................................................................................. ix Summary . ............................................................................................. xi Acknowledgments . ................................................................................ xvii Glossary of Acronyms . ............................................................................. xix chAPTer one Introduction . .......................................................................................... 1 Understanding CSH Equipping and Maintenance Needs . ....................................... 2 Research Objective, Tasks, and Methods . .......................................................... 5 Overview of Research Results . ....................................................................... 6 Structure of This Document . ........................................................................10 chAPTer Two cSh Personnel Perspectives on equipping and Maintaining combat Support hospitals . .............................................................................13 Surveys of CSH Personnel . ..........................................................................13 Respondents and Instrument . .....................................................................13 Survey Findings . ....................................................................................15 Focus Groups with CSH Personnel . ............................................................... 23 Participants and Questions . ...................................................................... 23 Focus Group Findings . ............................................................................ 24 Key Lessons from Surveys and Focus Groups . ....................................................29 chAPTer Three Alternative Designs for home Station equipment Sets . .....................................31 chAPTer Four Alternative equipping Strategies . ................................................................37 Estimating the Equipment Requirement for Deployed CSHs . ..................................37 v vi New Equipping Strategies for Combat Support Hospitals Sources of Deployable Hospitals . ...................................................................39 Sizing the Training Base . ............................................................................41 Summary of Alternative Equipping Strategies . ................................................... 43 chAPTer FIve Assessing the costs and risks of Alternative Strategies . .....................................45 Cost Assessment of Alternative Equipping Strategies . ........................................... 46 Equipment Replacement Cost . ................................................................... 46 Upgrade Costs and Obsolescence Management . ...............................................47 Maintenance Burden . ..............................................................................49 Risk Assessment of Alternative Equipping Strategies . ............................................52 chAPTer SIx Toward an Improved cSh equipping and Maintenance Strategy . ........................57 APPenDIx A. how cShs currently engage in Training to Achieve and Maintain Individual and collective Skills . ............................................................65