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2016 an N U a L R Ep O Rt 2016 Annual Report Annual 1 LETTER FROM GENERAL HAMMOND INNOVATION best describes the amazing work Home Base staff—the nation’s foremost experts Home Base by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s being performed at Home Base. As we enter our —to create and disseminate free online courses Office. The “Serving Those Who Have Served” eighth year of healing the invisible wounds of war, aimed to arm community members, healthcare web-based courses are all under an hour length, such as post-traumatic stress (PTS) and traumatic professionals and first responders with the free, and available on demand - making it easy brain injury (TBI), affecting our Post-9/11 Veterans, knowledge to recognize and treat the injuries for first responders to fit these trainings into their Service Members and their Families, innovation unseen. To date, we have “grown the bench” by busy schedules. and vision drives our every effort. At Home Base, training more than 45,000 healthcare professionals The synergies between Home Base and we seek to break a half-century old paradigm, and community members nationwide through our Massachusetts first responders—many of whom and blaze a trail forward to develop a 21st century Home Base Training Institute. are Veterans themselves—expanded further a few model of care for our Veterans. As we work to ensure the best possible outcomes for months later when 21 departments from across Thanks to the deep medical resources and expertise our Nation’s Veterans, we must innovate—always, the state took part in “No Shave November.” provided by our clinicians within Harvard Medical and in all ways. In 2016, Home Base piloted and Traditionally, police departments have a grooming School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), launched a transformational 14-day Intensive policy where officers must remain clean-shaven. and the great support of the Red Sox Foundation, Clinical Program (ICP) for the invisible wounds. By participating in this fundraiser, however, the new treatments are being developed, along with This innovative new model of care allows us to men-in-blue pledged money to put down their effective and veteran-friendly delivery models that compress nearly a year’s worth of therapy into two razors and grow their facial hair in support of our combine evidence-based care with a full range of weeks through a highly concentrated outpatient mission. The effort was spearheaded by an MBTA complimentary alternative treatments and wellness treatment program. The ICP also eliminates the Transit Police Officer, Purple Heart Recipient and based care. geographic barrier to care. Thanks to our generous former Home Base patient. This state-wide initiative partners and supporters, all airfare, transportation raised $50K to fund care for other Veterans at Since the inception of Home Base in 2009, we have to the clinic, meals, lodging, and treatment are Home Base. served more than 11,000 Veterans and their families provided at no cost to the Veteran. The ICP provides with care and support, and have done so at no cost A staggering number of suicides continue to rob evidence-based treatments in conjunction with to them. By recognizing when one family member us of members of this next greatest generation. complimentary alternative medicine to ensure serves, the entire family is affected, we developed Unlike the tragic loss of a comrade in combat, we wrap-around care. a holistic approach to treating the entire Military can prevent a significant number of these deaths family. Through our Resilient Warrior and Warrior In 2016, Home Base also took giant steps forward by connecting our brothers and sisters in arms Health & Fitness Programs, we are leveraging our in our focus to ensure those who need help, receive to the clinical care that they need. To this end, 2016 community resources to provide Veterans with the the help they so desperately require. Last spring, Home Base is once again shining the light where skills they need to succeed long term. Our clinicians our Education team launched a new set of online there was none before. In the summer of 2017, continue to work tirelessly on groundbreaking trainings for First Responders to ensure they can Home Base will pilot an alternate version of our research to improve current treatments, and to recognize and assist those who are suffering from ICP geared specifically towards military wives who ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL develop new methods for healing the invisible invisible wounds. The trainings were made possible have lost their Veteran spouse to suicide. These wounds. On the education front, we rely on the by a competitive $1 million grant awarded to women are struggling with severe symptoms of HOME BASE HOME BASE trauma, as well as significant symptoms of grief. In January 2017, Home Base Southwest Florida will This program is being developed in collaboration host the inaugural Run to Home Base Florida charity with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors race at the home of Red Sox Spring Training: JetBlue (TAPS), which frequently advises the White House, Park. Just like Home Base’s signature fundraiser at DoD, Congress, and the VA. Fenway, the Run to Home Base Florida will provide the SWFL community an opportunity to cross the Strategic partnerships are the key to making home plate finish line, while giving back to their a national impact, and having important Veterans community and directly supporting our conversations with healthcare leaders across the Home Base program in the area. country is what is going to make a difference in our mission. In 2016, I was honored to speak at a As the calendar flips from 2016 to 2017, Home think tank on the invisible wounds at the George Base will embark upon a $50M Capital Campaign W. Bush Presidential Center. The event was a focused on two specific areas that will build on prelude to an even greater initiative set to launch the incredibly successful programs established by in 2017 between Home Base, the Bush Institute Home Base. First we will build a state-of-the-art and other partners: The Warrior Wellness Alliance. facility to house this program and provide our This alliance is set to connect peer-to-peer veteran clinical team with the best tools available, and networks with best-in-class veteran healthcare then we will endow critical aspects of this program providers, in an overall goal to synchronize efforts to ensure the funds and resources for this care to ensure the best possible outcomes for the brave are available long after the sea of goodwill from men, women and children we serve. We will build these wars recede. The need for care and support on these advances, partnerships, and synergies to is ever present, and the folks who serve on behalf innovate further. of our country have earned our collective care and support when they return home. Together we can Years of experience have taught us that there is guarantee Home Base will continue its work to no “gold standard” for care or an effective model heal these invisible wounds, and in many cases, in place to heal the unseen wounds. To that end, save the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly in 2017, Home Base will continue to eliminate on our behalf. barriers of care for Post-9/11 Veterans, Service Brigadier General Members, and their families by expanding the The 2016 Home Base Annual Report is an accessibility of our Outpatient clinic through opportunity to say thank you while updating Jack Hammond telehealth visits, extended clinical hours and free you on our progress and future initiatives. Our babysitting for those who need child care to attend country and our Nation’s Veterans are counting USA Retired an appointment. We will also extend our clinical on us and, with your support, we are moving Executive Director offerings to include monthly support groups and forward - together. treatment groups for the entire family. Home Base Their Mission is Complete. Ours has Just Begun! A Red Sox Foundation Home Base is an opportunity for our entire and Massachusetts General community to get involved and give back to those Hospital Program who have served and sacrifice for our nation. 1 2 2016 ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL HOME BASE HOME BASE INTENSIVE CLINICAL PROGRAM LAUNCH “Mass General has rich and robust Psychiatry and Rehabilitation programs, and the addition of Home Base’s ICP is another example of the forward thinking treatment and care happening at this hospital.” –MGH President Peter L. Slavin, MD. On Friday, April 29, 2016, Home Base, a Red Sox includes roughly 50 hours of individual and group Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital therapy, stress reduction and resilience training, Program launched a revolutionary new treatment fitness and nutrition, family support and education, option for Post-9/11 Veterans and Service Members integrative therapies such as yoga, art and tai chi, suffering from the invisible wounds of war: the and social activities. Intensive Clinical Program (ICP). Over 130 supporters “The Intensive Clinical Program provides Home were in attendance, including MGH President, Base with yet another world-class treatment Dr. Peter Slavin, Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner, the option that is open to our local Veterans as well Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General as those who live in other parts of the country,” Mark Milley, Wounded Warrior Project Partnerships said Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner. “What would and Programmatic Investments Executive Vice normally take up to a year for a traditional course President Ned Breslin, VA Boston Healthcare of treatment has been condensed into a two-week Systems Director Vincent Ng, and former patient intensive program, allowing Veterans who are Bill Geiger, a U.S. Army Veteran who has benefited dealing with invisible wounds to be put on a path from the program.
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