Monday Health.mil News Round-Up: Innovation offers hope for burn patients; Family health clinic adds 1,000 appointments per month; Military Blood Program Supports Pacific Partnership 2015

Innovation offers hope for burn patients

Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan brought a surge in burn and blast wound injuries from improvised explosive devices. Many who sustain such injuries endure years of rehabilitation and countless surgeries. 

Finding innovative strategies to heal these complex wounds more quickly, with fewer complications and less long-term impact from scarring, contractures and disability is a high priority for military medicine.

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Family health clinic adds 1,000 appointments per month

Through process improvements and increased efficiencies, 59th Medical Wing Group Practice Managers found a way to add 12,000 more appointment slots in a single clinic over the next year.

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Military Blood Program Supports Pacific Partnership 2015

The U.S. Pacific Command and the Armed Services Blood Program conducted a three-day Blood Safety Workshop as part of Pacific Partnership 2015 in Pohnpei, one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, July 1-3. 

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