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The United States has entered a new security environment, causing its military to conduct operations in remote areas of the world with limited resources to support its troops. The Fleet Hospital Program is responsible for providing health service support ashore, mainly medical and surgical capabilities to Navy and Marine Corps personnel during intense combat operations. The requirement for forces to be lighter, more maneuverable, and more readily deployed and employed in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review has created the need for change in this program. This study answers the question: Should the Navy Fleet Hospital Program transform from a platform-based hospital to a modular, capabilities-based hospital? It utilizes five future mission scenarios for deployable medical systems to evaluate the applicability of a capabilities-based fleet hospital to perform those missions. The study leads to the conclusion that in order to remain a relevant deployable medical asset, the current fleet hospitals require reconfiguration to capabilities-based hospitals to meet the operational needs of the war fighter. The current fleet hospitals are simply too large and cumbersome to provide a flexible, modular, and maneuverable medical facility necessary to operate in today's security environment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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