ARMY MEDICINE MERCURYVolume 41, No. 2 NOVEMBER 2013 A worldwide publication telling the Army Medicine Story ARMY MEDICINE MERCURYVolume 41, No. 2 CONTENTS DEPARTMENTS FEATURE ARMY MEDICINE MERCURYUS ARMY MEDICAL COMMAND TSG INITIATIVES READY & RESILIENT Commander The Ready and Resilient Campaign integrates and synchronizes multiple efforts and Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho programs to improve the readiness and resilience of the Army Family. Director of Communications Col. Jerome L. Buller PERFORMANCE TRIAD AND LIFESPACE Army Medicine’s operational approach to improve Soldier and Family health and stamina Chief, MEDCOM Public focusing upon Activity, Nutrition and Sleep Management (ANS). Visit the Performance Affairs Officer armymedicine.army.mil/PerformanceTriad/index.cfm Jaime Cavazos Triad webpage at: Editor OPERATING COMPANY MODEL Valecia L. Dunbar, D.M. The Operating Company (OCM) seeks consistency of experience across the enterprise by both patients and medical staff. It is the abstract representation of how an organization Graphic Designers Jennifer Donnelly operates across process, organization, and technology domains in order to accomplish its Rebecca Westfall function. The OCM reduces operational complexity and describes the way a 21st century organization does business today. The MERCURY is an ARMY MEDICINE 2020 CAMPAIGN PLAN authorized publication The Army Medicine 2020 Campaign Plan (AM 2020 CP) operationalizes the vision of for members of the U.S. the United States Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) for 2020. It also establishes Army Medical Department, published under the authority the framework through which the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) will achieve its of AR 360-1. Contents are 2020 end state. Download the Army Medicine Campaign Plan not necessarily official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, Department of the SOCIAL MEDIA CENTER Army, or this command. 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The MERCURY submission and style guide can be accessed START PINNING TODAY ON Army Medicine JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON Army Medicine 3 | ARMYMEDICINE.MIL ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF Strategic Priorities for the Army As your 38th Army chief of staff, I have • A Globally Responsive and visited with Soldiers serving around the Regionally Engaged Army world as well as at our installations across • A Ready and Modern Army the United States. • Soldiers Committed to Our Army At every location our Soldiers, Civilians, Profession and Family members have inspired • The Premier All-Volunteer Army me with their passion, courage, and These priorities are the basis for the commitment to each other, to our Army, objectives outlined in the upcoming and to the nation. 2014 Army Strategic Planning Guidance. Our Army serves in a period of That Strategic Guidance will provide dynamic uncertainty. International the Total Army a definitive statement of threats by both state and non-state actors our mission as we look ahead to build to America’s national interests and those upon our hard-earned experiences of of our Allies and partners are in the the previous decade of war and toward a headlines every day. The unpredictability future that poses distinct challenges of its so prominent in the contemporary own. security environment will almost certainly While we continue to support our The attached document explains my remain a characteristic of the future. Soldiers and Civilians who are in harm’s priorities. I expect every member of In this challenging environment, it is way around the world, we are making the Total Army to know these and to essential that our Total Army -- Active changes to our institutions and processes implement decisions and actions in Army, the Army National Guard, and to ensure that we are maximizing accordance with them. I look forward to the U.S. Army Reserve -- be ready the limited resources available to the discussing them with you further as I visit to accomplish the range of military Army. To communicate my intent for your duty locations. operations we are directed to perform. how the Army must move forward, I Army Strong! Our leaders and the American public am publishing here the following five rightly place their confidence in our priorities: Raymond T. Odierno professional competence and character, • Adaptive Army Leaders for a General, 38th Chief of Staff and they expect us to succeed. Complex World United States Army Affordable Care Act Tricare Eligibility To check your TRICARE eligibility in DEERS, call the Defense Manpower Data Center Support Office at 1-800-538-9552. For information on: • The Health Insurance Marketplace, visit: healthcare.gov/ or call 1-800-318-2596. • The Affordable Care Act, visit: http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/ • TRICARE, visit: tricare.mil/ or call your TRICARE contractor. On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, enrollment for healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) opened. Unless exempted, all Americans must have Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) in place by January 1, 2014 to fulfill the individual coverage mandate or may be required to pay a fee (“shared responsibility payment”) for each month without health coverage. For other than line of duty and direct care, TRICARE is considered MEC. For purchase care plans (TRICARE Reserve Select, TRICARE Retired Reserve, TRICARE Young Adult, and the Continued Health Care Benefit Program) individuals must be paying plan premiums to have MEC. More information is available at: tricare.mil/aca and through FAQs at www.tricare. mil/faqs, keyword search “MEC” and “ACA.” 4 | ARMYMEDICINE.MIL TSG SPEAKS! TSG Addresses the AUSA Family Forum: The Performance Triad – A Holistic Approach to Self-Care, Oct. 22, Washington, DC. I’m going to ask that you give me just right, being active, and sleeping well. 24-hours. I’m not going to go into detail here, but This could be the first generation of I do have my experts here in this room children in the United States that lives who will be here afterwards. Performance less than its parents. There is a crisis here doesn’t mean maxing your PT test or in America; 9 out of 10 Americans, 9 winning the Army Ten-Miler next year. out of 10 of us in this room, will die Performance means being better of a preventable illness -- heart disease, spouses, better parents, better Soldiers, diabetes, stroke, cancer… better friends, and better members of Most accept this as inevitable and not a your community. Our prescription for a matter of if, but when. But it’s not when, better today, and a better tomorrow, is a it’s if. The decisions we make every day better you. But what makes this different determines if, not when, we will contract is that for the first time we’ll look at these one of these life-threatening conditions. interventions: activity, nutrition and It is a choice, not a sentence and it’s not sleep…through the unique lens of the something we have to accept. Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho brain -- both conscious and subconscious. Food alone does not fully explain the So, back to my challenge. I asked that epidemic of lifestyle-induced disease in from a healthcare system – a system you give yourself the next 24-hours. our culture. Our 24-hour lifestyle, lit by focused on illness and injury – to a Starting now. Take a few simple steps neon lights and fueled by caffeine, bears System for Health. to a better tomorrow. And here is my part of the blame. That’s you and me. Too A System for Health recognizes that prescription for the rest of today. Thirty much coffee, too many sweets, too many health is a state of complete physical, (30) minutes walking this afternoon or pills, not enough sleep…Too much of the mental, and social well-being and not early this evening when you get home. wrong foods and nowhere near enough merely the absence of disease or infirmity. And then start your day tomorrow with activity. And it’s not only us, but our Health and well-being happen outside our 30 minutes of brisk walking. Eat your spouses, children, coworkers, bosses, and hospitals and clinics -- in the Lifespace. calories, don’t drink them. Avoid caffeine just about everyone else around us. I’ve It’s our time at work and school, for the rest of today, but tomorrow seen the enemy, and it is us. our time at home with Family and morning it is fine. No flashing lights in your bedroom. Get to bed in time for seven hours of uninterrupted sleep. A System for Health recognizes that Try to follow this prescription for the health is a state of complete physical, next 24-hours and then see how you feel. I would like to know. Tweet me at my mental and social well-being and handle – @LTGHoroho. not merely the absence of disease Take care of yourself. Take care of your body and your brain. Be healthy. Be well. or infirmity. Health and well-being If you do that, you will live a better life. happen outside our hospitals and clinics -- in the Lifespace. Serving to Heal … Honored to Serve Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho 43rd Surgeon General In Army Medicine, we have a strategy. friends, and the third of our lives we We call it Army Medicine 2020.