Live from AUSA: At the IMCOM Booth Delivering the Promises of the Army Family Covenant: Health Care

The Army is committed to increasing accessibility and quality of health care. Providing accessibility and quality of health care is key to the AFC, which honors the sacrifices made by Soldiers and Military Families.

Some highlights include:

-- 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 Transitions residing at home.
-- 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 Behavioral Health (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.
-- Created 200,000 training products for military children and Families to strengthen their resilience and ease the effects of deployment on children, spouses and dual-military Families.
-- 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.

“Our goal is to inspire trust in Army medicine’s stakeholders and customers by building relationships, enhancing partnerships and improving communication about the excellence and value of Army medicine,” said LTC Nikki Butler, Allied Health Staff Officer in the Army Office of the Surgeon General.