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Policy
This publication implements AFPD 44-1, Medical Operations. It provides guidance and procedures for Access to Care (ATC) operations within the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS). It establishes the roles, responsibilities, definitions and requirements for implementing, sustaining and managing ATC for AFMS Medical Treatment Facilities (MTFs).
Policy
This policy memo provides standardized definitions, standardized guidelines for insertion and maintenance of urinary catheters, and standardized processes for data collection and reporting of CAUTIs.
Policy
This policy memorandum directs Commanders to incorporate health care delivered to patients placed on ventilators at the patient's bedside whose measures that have been shown to prevent or reduce VAP as described in the current scientific literature.
Policy
This regulation provides standardized guidance to promote maximum effectiveness and safety to the maternal-fetal unit during trial of labor (TOL) for vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) section delivery and to provide an optimal environment and psychosocial support to the patient.
Policy
This regulation directs standardized implementation of endorsed evidence-based falls risk assessment tools: the Johns Hopkins Hospital Fall Risk Assessment© (adult) and the Miami Children’s Hospital’s Humpty Dumpty Scale© (pediatric). In addition, this regulation requires incorporation of falls assessment documentation into the inpatient (Essentris) electronic medical record (EMR).
Policy
The purpose of this regulation is to provide policy and recommendations that will help ensure minimal risk of fires associated with the performance of surgical procedures in any healthcare setting to include, but not limited to, the following: operating room (OR), office-based, ambulatory surgery, and intensive care unit type.
Policy
This instruction reissues DoD Instruction (DoDI) 6000.14 (Reference (b)) to establish policy, assign responsibilities, and provide procedures for implementation of the Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (commonly referred to as the “Patient’s Bill of Rights”) (Reference (c)).
Policy
Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes uniform guidelines, procedures, and standards for the implementation of clinical case management (CM) in the Military Health System (MHS), for TRICARE beneficiaries including care of the wounded, ill, and injured (WII). Defines terms for MM, implements polices, assigns responsibilities, and specifies content for activities within the military treatment facilities (MTF). Establishes an interdependent MM system between the direct care system and purchased care system to improve the delivery and the quality of healthcare.
Policy
Chiropractic services may now be added at Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) that do not offer the service, subject to Military Department approval procedures and available funding. This change recognizes several requests from MTFs to add chiropractic services and the incorporation of chiropractic care in various pain management programs. Each Military Department shall establish its own policy for their MTFs to request approval to add chiropractic services or to transfer chiropractic authorizations to other MTFs.
Policy
This memorandum clarifies the procedures under title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 199.24(d)(3) for suspending TRICARE Reserve Select (TRS) coverage for up to 12 months and, upon request from a TRS member/survivor request, lifting the suspension, which will reinstate coverage with no break.
Policy
This instruction establishes policy, publishes procedures, and assigns responsibility for the accreditation of Navy Medicine's (NAVMED) medical treatment facilities (MTFs). This
instruction is a complete revision and must be read in its entirety.
Policy
The purpose of this memorandum is to update Health Affairs Policy 08-020, which implemented the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) within the Military Health System (MHS).
Policy
This instruction outlines military treatment facility (MTF) roles and responsibilities in the area of clinical performance improvement (PI), explains patient safety and risk management (RM) programs, PI/accreditation/self-inspection requirements, credentials and privileging processes, and scope of practice in order to provide optimal healthcare delivery.
Policy
This instruction establishes Navy Medicine strategic policy for the promotion of organizational transparency and full disclosure following unanticipated or adverse outcomes of care; to assist the enterprise in "doing the right thing" when there are unanticipated outcomes of care, treatment and services; to train and coach providers in disclosure techniques and to resolve complex healthcare issues at the earliest opportunity, outside a legal venue, with equitable resolutions for patients, providers, and the organization.
Policy
This memorandum rescinds and replaces several previously-issued Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) (ASD[HA]) policy memoranda regarding TRICARE policy for access to care. To the extent practicable, this policy applies to overseas locations and to the TRICARE Overseas Program contractor with consideration that overseas/foreign locations often present unique circumstances.
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