The Las Vegas military-civilian partnership: An origin story and call to action
Jeremy P Kilburn1, Stephanie Streit, John J Degoes
1From the University of Nevada Las Vegas Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine (J.P.K., S.S., M.G., D.R.F., J.F.), Las Vegas, Nevada; Headquarters Air Force (J.J.D.), Arlington, Virginia; and University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (A.A.), Las Vegas, Nevada.
Abstract:
Military-civilian partnerships (MCPs) in urban American trauma centers have existed for more than 60 years to assist in the development and maintenance of wartime skills of military medical professionals. In the last 5 years, MCPs have gained congressional support, and their number and variety have grown substantially. The historical impact of these flagship trauma MCPs is well documented, with bidirectional benefit in the advancement of trauma care during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan both deployed and stateside, and the future aim of MCPs lies primarily in mitigating the "peacetime effect." The majority of data regarding MCPs; however, focus on trauma care and are biased toward surgeons specifically. The Las Vegas (LV) MCP began in 2002 with the similar goal of sustaining Air Force (AF) expeditionary medical skills by embedding AF medics from nearby Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) into University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC), the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Nevada. Over nearly 20 years, the LV-MCP has evolved into an innovative market-based collaboration composed of numerous relationships and programs that are designed to develop and sustain critical skills for military medical personnel in all aspects of expeditionary medicine. This includes AF medical personnel providing care to federal beneficiaries as well as civilian patients in a variety of medical settings. The partnership's central coordinating authority, the Office of Military Medicine-Las Vegas (OMM-LV), brings together military and civilian organizations with distinct and intersecting missions to support the greater LV population and the DoD mission of readiness. The LV-MCP is presented here as a model for the future of MCPs within the integrated local and national trauma and medical systems.
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