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JOINT BASE MCQUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – Members of the Army Reserve’s 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support) and U.S. Navy medical Corps inventoried and packaged dental and optical kits at the 99th Regional Support Command’s Equipment Concentration Site 99 here for an Innovative Readiness Training mission.
ECS 99 is a 60,000-square-foot, solar-powered, climate-controlled facility that provides the 3rd MCDS storage space for medical, dental, veterinary, forward surgical and early entry hospital equipment, as well as maintenance capabilities for bio-medical equipment and X-ray, ventilator and defibrillator repair.
“This is a great asset for Army medicine,” said Bernard Olszewski, ECS 99 manager.
In addition to this medical storage and maintenance facility, the 99th RSC provides essential services and support throughout the nation’s northeast region, caring for all Army Reserve Soldiers assigned to approximately 330 training, maintenance and storage facilities from Maine to Virginia.
By offering these services to the Army Reserve’s medical community, ECS 99 and the 99th RSC are better able to provide the support that enables unit commanders to focus solely on training and growing leaders to ensure the Army Reserve has the skills necessary to meet future mobilization demands.
IRT represents a partnership between requesting community organizations and the military. Individual IRT Projects provide real-world training for service members while supporting the needs of America’s under-served communities, and provide commanders another option to meet their mobilization and readiness requirements, enhance morale and contribute to military retention and recruitment.
During the staffing for the IRT support mission, it was determined that the best method to manage costs and ensure patient safety was to assign responsibility to the 3rd MCDS to support the IRT medical mission for FY15.
“This is 3rd MCDS’ first packout for the IRT mission since the command has taken oversight. The equipment and medical supplies will immediately go from Ohio to Alabama for the (IRT) mission which runs through the rest of June,” said Master Sgt. Charles C. Marshall, IRT non-commissioned officer in charge. “At the end of the missions, the remaining medical supplies equipment will come back to JB MDL for reconstitution.”
The Army Reserve is managing costs in other ways as well. During FY14 the 3rd MCDS, USARC IRT program manager and U.S. Army Reserve Command Surgeon’s Office noticed several peculiarities within the IRT program that raised concerns. The way the system was designed, each mission commander could order medical materiel with little or no coordination with other units with similar missions. This could lead to the duplication of materials and potential waste of medical materiel and IRT funds. The most serious possibility was the lack of accountability on units’ property books and no servicing agency to maintain the equipment.
Currently, over $300,000 in excess medical materiel and over 60 tri-walls have been inventoried and packaged from FY 14 IRT medical missions for the FY 15 mission. Process improvements made to the IRT support mission are designed to reduce cost and increase savings by enforcement, standardization, properly performing services and maintaining medical equipment to prevent unneeded purchases.
For more information on the 99th RSC, visit the command’s customer service website at www.army.mil/99thrsc.
| Date Taken: | 05.26.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 05.26.2015 08:56 |
| Story ID: | 164518 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, NJ, US |
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