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[JACKSONVILLE, Fla.] The Army Reserve Medical Command commanding general joined his “Warrior Medics” for the inaugural iteration of the Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety for military medical professionals held June 21 through June 23 at the Mayo Clinic campus here.
“The Mayo Clinic, in general, is an outstanding organization, and the fact that they put this kind of environment together here in Jacksonville that we can come and use is just awesome,” said Brig. Gen. Michael L. Yost, who took command of AR-MEDCOM at an April 24 ceremony at the command’s Pinellas Park, Florida, headquarters.
The Texas resident, who was commissioned in 1993 as a chemical officer, said there were practical reasons for establishing TeamSTEPPS here, expanding upon the decade-long TeamSTEPPS training partnership with Mayo Clinic’s Rochester, Minnesota, campus.
MRTC’s OCT’s were assigned to the 1st Medical Training Brigade’s 7303rd Military Training Support Battalion, Fort Eisenhower, Georgia.
The Soldiers in the training were “Desert Medics” assigned to the 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support)’s 345th Field Hospital, based here. They were joined by personnel from the 301st Field Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Warren Cantrell, the education specialist and education director at the Mayo Clinic here, said he and the clinic team worked to bring the same culture of learning found at the Rochester campus.
“We pretty much just tried to replicate everything that was already kind of being done in Rochester,” he said.
“Once we decided that we're going to bring it here, I flew up to Rochester for one of their events,” he said. “We went through the whole evolution together and I took a bunch of pictures, took a bunch of notes, and then we just kind of collaborated and brought the whole process here.”
Using the Mayo Clinic mockups of an operating room, an emergency room, an intensive care unit and other hospital departments, Medical Readiness and Training Command observer-controller-trainers take active-duty, Army Reserve and National Guard military medical professionals through crawl-walk-run phases, both standing in with the Soldiers, from behind two-way mirrors and with feeds from dozens of video cameras.
Yost said the Soldiers going through TeamSTEPPS here benefit from the world-class facility.
“It’s going to serve our Soldiers well,” he said. “They've got all kinds of different scenarios obviously that they run us through here that are as real world as they can make it, but they have world-class equipment and facilities here.”
Major Angela Saunders, who oversees the Mayo Clinic training partnership at the AR-MEDCOM headquarters operations section, said having the second location in a different climate.
“We've had a contract at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and sometimes the weather doesn't work very well for our Soldiers to travel there,” the major said.
“They may or may not have had a couple of complications for traveling due to snow, so this allows us to rotate the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota with Jacksonville, Florida, so we will avoid hurricane season here in Jacksonville, Florida,” she said.
The major said she was impressed when the Soldiers came to the Mayo Clinic and appreciated the opportunity to improve their skills.
“This world-class facility has a name that gives us great background for knowledge in the medical industry,” she said.
“These Mayo Clinics are known for their innovation and their training, as well as being on top of the cutting edge of medicine today,” she said.
“Our Soldiers coming through this mission, they are here to train. They're going to work through TeamSTEPPS,” she said.
TeamSTEPPS has its roots in lessons learned from airline industry accidents, which were attributed to poor teamwork and communication. The program is a system of protocols, redundancies, and shared vocabulary that is becoming universal in both military and civilian medical organizations.
Yost said TeamSTEPPS is patient-centric.
“It is a very critical thing for patients to be treated well and for our staff to be able to ensure patients flow through a system most efficiently so that there's no lag in care,” he said.
“It also tests the standard operating procedures of the unit that's there working through that process to ensure they're communicating well, and handoffs are done appropriately with patient orders and patient information,” the graduate of The University of South Dakota at Vermillion.
The general said the training teaches the military medical professionals that when a doctor orders a lab test or an X-ray, it is done correctly and that the departments are working and communicating together.
Yost said he took a unit through TeamSTEPPS at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
“As a commander, I went through the TeamSTEPPS process,” he said. “We started out with a hospital exercise, which is like a tabletop version of what they will get here. This is more of a real-life version in this facility where they have manikins; they flow through the process.”
Saunders said the emphasis on training Soldiers in TeamSTEPPS is also tied to AR-MEDCOM responding to the Army’s posture transformation from two decades of counterinsurgency to large-scale combat operations.
“They're going to make sure that they have communication, which is essential when you're going down range, especially when we don't know what we're going to go into the potential for large-scale combat operations,” she said.
The Mayo Clinic began with the frontier medical practice of Dr. William Worrall Mayo, who served as a surgeon in the Union Army. His sons, William and Charles also became doctors and worked out of Rochester’s St. Mary’s Hospital, from its 1889 founding.
Over time, the two brothers took on partners in their practice and accepted other physicians traveling to their practice for lectures and other continuing education. Eventually, other physicians spoke of the Mayo brothers as running a clinic in pursuit of medical excellence.
During the First World War, the brothers served as Army Reserve colonels advising the Army Surgeon General, and after the war, they were both promoted to brigadier general.
Yost said he was proud of the Army Reserve’s affiliation with the Mayo Clinic and how what the two brothers set in motion is still helping Soldiers save lives.
“What an awesome thing to have a couple of general officers that came together to put something like this together.”
| Date Taken: | 06.27.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 06.27.2024 09:04 |
| Story ID: | 474966 |
| Location: | JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, US |
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