MEDICAL DIRECTORATE

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Subject: MEDICAL DIRECTORATE                                             

Unit: FLEET HOSP  

Parent Organization: NAVCENTCOM  

Box ID: BX300052

Folder Title: FLEET HOSPITAL WORKING PAPERS VARIOUS SOURCES CNA 2837                                          

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             Medical Directorate

                  Comprised of four departments including Medicine,
             psychiatry, Intensive Care, and Environmental & Preventive
             Medicine. this directorate performs a wide range of medical and
             health services at Fleet Hospital Five.

                  Medical Department, which includes Dermatology, Sick Call
             and all wards, is staffed by more than 60 physicians, physician
             assistants, nurse practitioners and hospital corpsman. The
             physicians of Medical Department are in charge of patients
             admitted to Fleet Hospital Flve's 14 medical and surgical wards.
             Sick Call is responsible for staff illnesses and all
             immunizations; Physician Assistants support surgical teams in
             Casualty Receiving.

                  Specialist support by staff physicians include consultative
             Services for Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary, Cardiology,
             Nephrology, Allergy, Hematology and Neurology.

                  Cardiologists have succeeded in returning numerous patients
             to duty by innovative use of stress testing techniques instead of
             medically evacuating (MEDEVAC) them to out-of-theater hospitals.
             Allergists and neurologists have also used innovative ways to
             evaluate patients with asthma and syncope to avoid MEDEVAC.
             Infectious disease specialists are vigilant in the control and
             treatment of infectious diseases and developed treatment
             protocols to adjust to the restrictions of field medicine.

                  Dermatologists have also rendered cuts tanding care, seeing
             more than 2300 patients and frequently preventing the medical
             evacuation of patients.

                  Psychiatry DepaLrtrnent is staffed by two psychiatrists, a
d corpsmen.
             Psychiatry evaluates and treats the mental health of active duty
             personnel and determines fitness for duty. Psychiatry also
             supports the Fleet Hospital Five staff and other medical units
             by providing training in Combat Stress Management.

                  Int ensive Department staffs four Interisive Care Units (ICUS)
             with a t@tal of 80,,beds and 44 ventilators. Physicians in this
             department are responsible for severely il'A patients and provide
             post operative care to patients coming out of Surgery. In
             addition to ICU duties, staff physicians from this department
             provide subspecialty consultation in pu2morology, cardiology.
             nephrology and gastroenterology.

                   Environmental Health Departir-ent provides surveillance for
             and technical assistance with pest control, food and water
             sanitation, and sanitary disposal of trasb and sewage. This
    0        department is also responsible for compiling and tracking
             information on the incidence of preventable diseases.



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File Room = sep96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-36
Box ID = BX300052
Unit = FLEET HOSP
Parent Organization = NAVCENTCOM
Folder Title = FLEET HOSPITAL WORKING PAPERS VARIOUS SOURCES CNA 2837
Folder Seq # = 11
Subject = MEDICAL DIRECTORATE
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 01-OCT-1996