PMID- 23113435
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121127
LR  - 20190513
IS  - 0026-4075 (Print)
IS  - 0026-4075 (Linking)
VI  - 177
IP  - 10
DP  - 2012 Oct
TI  - Medical stability operations--one approach to transforming the Department of 
      Defense Military Health System.
PG  - 1119-24
AB  - The Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 6000.16 entitled Military Health 
      Support for Stability Operations was published in 2010 and established policy 
      that Medical Stability Operations (MSOs) would be a core military mission. The 
      instruction set out to institutionalize how the Military Health Support (MHS) 
      would effectively support MSOs and assist in bridging the gap with other actors 
      operating in the same space. What is less clear is the current status of the MHS 
      in accomplishing the responsibilities outlined in the DoDI. Even more concerning 
      is how these efforts will support the "new" strategic guidance for the DoD 
      published in January 2012 that states U.S. forces will no longer be sized to 
      conduct large-scale, prolonged stability operations. In the absence of a publicly 
      available DoDI 6000.16 implementation strategy, this article proposes the use of 
      an organizational transformation process developed by internationally acclaimed 
      leadership and organizational change expert Dr. John Kotter. The eight-step 
      process is used as a framework to explore ways to effectively transform the DoD 
      in meeting the intent of the MSOs DoDI. The past decade has transformed how 
      service members think about MSOs. Now is the time to transform the MHS with 
      urgency to institutionalize these thoughts.
FAU - Licina, Derek
AU  - Licina D
AD  - Department of Global Health, The George Washington University, 2175 K Street, NW, 
      Suite 200, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Mil Med
JT  - Military medicine
JID - 2984771R
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Military Medicine
MH  - *Military Personnel
MH  - Organizational Culture
MH  - Organizational Innovation
MH  - United States
MH  - United States Department of Defense
EDAT- 2012/11/02 06:00
MHDA- 2012/12/10 06:00
CRDT- 2012/11/02 06:00
PHST- 2012/11/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/11/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/12/10 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.7205/milmed-d-12-00119 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mil Med. 2012 Oct;177(10):1119-24. doi: 10.7205/milmed-d-12-00119.