The Army is committed to increasing accessibility and quality of health care.
• Created 36 Warrior Transition Units (WTU) to support more than 7,700
Soldiers. An additional nine community-based WTUs are now serving more
than 1,450 Warriors in Transition residing at home.
• Increased primary care visits to more than seven million in FY08,
meeting access standards for 90% of patient acute, routine, and
specialty appointments.
• Hired 189 of 259
new contract Behavioral Health (BH) providers (does not include
providers who converted from contract to government employment) and
launched an intensive marketing campaign to hire more BH providers.
• Funded 46 Marriage and Family Therapist positions.
• Filled 72% of the Army Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) counselor positions, an increase of 2% from last year.
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Provided Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(TBI/PTSD) chain teaching to more than 900,000 Soldiers and conducted
neurocognitive testing on more than 240,000 Soldiers prior to
deployment. Educated 750 providers on TBI care and programs and
provided advanced PTSD training to 950 BH providers (600 received
web-based training). FY09 improvements included increasing the PTSD
Training program from 12 to 24 courses and training 720 additional BH
providers. |
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Committed to providing depression and PTSD training to all Primary Care
providers ensuring they have the skills and tools needed to treat
patients.
• Created 200,000 training products
for military children and Families tostrengthen their resilience and
ease the effects of deployments on children, spouses, and dual-military
Families.
• Established a Center of
Excellence for Children and Adolescents at Madigan Army Medical Center
to develop appropriate prevention and resiliency-based
psycho-educational support products.
• Strengthened partnership efforts with the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve the transition process for Soldiers.
• Authorized TRICARE Standard coverage for more than 500,000 eligible
members of the Selected Reserve and their Family members and lowered
the co-payment by 44% for individuals and 29% for Family members.
• Augmented Family Life Centers with U.S. Army Reserve Chaplains to
increase access to supportive Family counseling and education as part
of comprehensive counseling initiatives.
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Conducted regular suicide awareness, prevention and intervention
training for Soldiers at their home station and while deployed. |
