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HRD-81-56 1 (1981-05-19)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES





DOD Needs Better Assessment

Of Military Hospitals' Capabilities

To Care For Wartime Casualties


Over the last two decades military hospital
bed capacity has fallen substantially with the
Department of Defense's (DOD's) adoption of
peacetime hospital replacement standards.
DOD is developing a contingency system of
civilian hospitals to augment its hospital bed
shortfalls. GAO believes that DOD needs a
better assessment of the mobilization capa-
bilities of military hospitals as the basis for                        115254
determining what contingency support should
be obtained.

GAO recommends to the Secretary of Defense
(1) design alternatives that would improve the
mobilization capacity of military hospitals
constructed in the future and (2) ways to im-
prove military service plans foruse of existing
hospitals. As part of its processes for author-
izing and appropriating funds for the construc-
tion of replacement medical facilities and es-
tablishing priorities for those facilities, the
Congress should consider the planned hospi-
tals' mobilization roles, their flexibility to ex-
pand, the resulting gains or losses in total
DOD mobilization capacity, and whether near-
by civilian hospitals can be expected to sup-
port mobilization needs.






                                                                    HRD-81-56

            LMAY 19, 1981

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