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Sch e du le o f Even t s

March 22 - 3-6FA Coffee

March 23 - In Her Shoes: Living With Domestic

Violence – Army Community Service

March 23 - Make up BN DONSA

March 24-25 - Maple Days, 1000-1400 @ 45IN

Hill (Water Tower)

March 26 DIVISION DONSA

March 26 - CYSS Child Development Centers

Closed (ALL) All Day @ All Locations

March 28-29 - Bravo Exercise

March 28 - Family Support Huddle, 1000-1130 @

Hays Hall/Eagles Nest

March 28 - Alpha FRG Meeting, 1800 @ BN

Classroom

March 29 - Women’s History Month Observance,

1100-1300 @ The Commons

March 29 -Mountain Remembrance Ceremony,

1630-1700 @ Main Post Chapel

March 30 - Right Arm Night , 1700 @

Commons

March 31—Maple Days , 1000-1400 @ 45 Infan-

try Hill (Water Tower)

APRIL April 1 - APRIL FOOLS DAY

April 1 - Maple Days , 1000-1400 @ 45 Infantry

Hill (Water Tower)

April 2-5 - Bravo Exercise

April 2-9 - Local Schools Spring Break

April 5 - HHB Change of Command, 11AM @

3-6 Building Area

April 6 - In her Shoes: Living with Domestic Vio-

lence, 0900-1130 @ ACS

April 6-9 - DIVISION DONSA

April 8 - EASTER

April 8 - Easter Sunday Brunch @ Commons

April 10 - Bravo Training

April 10 - Thrift Savings Plan, 1400-1430 @ ACS

April 11 - Kids Korner: What do Peeps Read,

1600-2000 @ McEwen Library

April 13 - Education Fair @ Commons

April 13-15 - Trip to Washington DC, Departs

0700 @ Parks & Recreation

April 15 - TAX DAY

April 16-May 11 - 3-6 Field Training

April 16-20 - Fort Drum Volunteer Appreciation

Week, 0700-1630 @ ACS

April 17 - Holocaust Days of Remembrance Ob-

servance, 1100-1330 @ The Commons

April 19 - Volunteer of the Month Ceremony,


April 19 - Annual Volunteer, Man & Woman of

the Mountain, 1700-2000 @ The Commons

April 20 - 21st Annual Festival of Food, 1630-2000

@ The Commons

April 21 - Child Safety/Month of the Military

Child Carnival, 1300-1700 @ Youth Center Gym

April 22 - EARTH DAY

April 23 - Budget Management, 0930-Noon @

ACS

April 25 - Family Support Huddle , 1000-1130 @

Hays Hall/Eagles Nest

April 26 - Civilian of the Quarter Ceremony,


April 27 - PSAT Test and Assistance, 1500-1800

@ Youth Center Gym

22 March 2012

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June 2-3 for Adirondack

Creek and Rhicard

Hills, June 9-10 is

Monument Ridge and

Crescent Woods!

By Cheryl Pellerin

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 2,

2012 - A proposed new govern-

ance structure will make the

military health system more

effective and produce savings,

and the system's 9.8 million

beneficiaries worldwide will

never miss an appointment,

the Pentagon's top health af-

fairs official said.

In a Feb. 24 interview with

the Pentagon Channel and

American Forces Press ser-

vice, Dr. Jonathan Woodson,

assistant secretary of defense

for health affairs and director

of the TRICARE Management

Activity, discussed three gov-

ernance reforms under way for

the military health system.

Woodson, a vascular surgeon,

said it's been a transformative

decade for the nation and the

Defense Department.

"Our defense health program

budget was about $19 billion

in 2001, [and] this year's

budget is about $53 billion,"

he said. "So we clearly need to

not only focus on accessing

quality care, but [also on] pro-

ducing value for the amount of

money we're spending on

health care."

As the health care budget

grows and the Defense De-

partment's top-line budget

shrinks, Woodson added, "a

natural tension is created in

terms of being able to train,

man and equip the force, yet

provide for quality health

care." He said everything pos-

sible must be done to reduce

costs in the military health

care system before adjusting

fees for medical services.

The effort began in June,

Woodson said, when then-

Deputy Defense Secretary

William J. Lynn III estab-

lished an internal task force to

review the military health sys-

tem's governance. The task

force reported back in Septem-

ber, evaluating health system

governance options as well as

options for the governance of

multiservice medical markets

and of the national capital re-

gion's health system.

Based on the report and on

consultations with the ser-

vices' top civilian and military

leaders, the chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff and other

senior Defense Department

officials, the current deputy

defense secretary, Ashton B.

Carter, now has directed that

three reforms be instituted in

the military health system.

One involves creating a de-

fense health agency to take on

the functions of the TRICARE

Management Activity and as-

sume responsibility for imple-

menting shared services

across the system. TRICARE

is the civilian care component

of the military health system.

"One of the things we looked

at is whether new MHS gov-

ernance could produce greater

efficiencies and savings,"

Woodson said. The main struc-

ture being proposed, called the

Defense Health Agency, "looks

to do a better job administer-

ing what we call shared ser-

vices," he added.

"Right now we have essen-

tially three administrative

structures -- the Army, Navy

and Air Force -- that run

health services," the Defense

Department's top doctor ex-

plained. "The thought is that

we would combine functions

that are common to the ser-

vices, and thereby produce

savings."

He cited health information

technology as an example, not-

ing that it is extraordinarily

costly and is common to all of

the services. "There [is] no

reason why the services

should develop their own prod-

ucts," Woodson said. "This can

be done in a shared fashion

and produce savings." Other

common areas, he added, are

medical education for physi-

cians, nurses, medics and

pharmacists, and medical lo-

gistics.

Another proposed reform will

establish market managers for

multiservice medical markets,

except for the national capital

region. The managers' en-

hanced authorities will allow

them to create and sustain a

cost-effective, coordinated and

high-quality health care sys-

tem, Woodson said

Changes Aim to Strengthen Military Health System

if approved, probably would

not be instituted until early

next year, Woodson said.

"The whole idea is to look for-

ward," he said,

"understanding that we need

to bend the curve of the health

care budget to look at a gov-

ernance structure that makes

us more effective, more agile

and adds value to the services

and their ability to deliver

high-quality care."

The third reform involves

transferring responsibility for

running military treatment

facilities in and around Wash-

ington, D.C. -- including Wal-

ter Reed National Military

Medical Center in Maryland

and Fort Belvoir Community

Hospital in Virginia -- to a na-

tional capital region director-

ate within the new Defense

Health Agency.

Carter also is establishing a

planning team, Woodson said,

with leadership nominated by

the undersecretary of defense

for personnel and readiness

and Joint Chiefs Chairman

Army Gen. Martin E.

Dempsey, to ensure timely im-

plementation of the govern-

ance plan after it's reviewed --

first by the Government Ac-

countability Office and then

by Congress.

Each organization has more

than 100 days to review the

proposal, so changes in the

medical system's governance,

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Volume 1, Issue 1

Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers

The Army Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) Clinical and Non-

Clinical (Prevention & Drug Testing) services will be relocating

from buildings P-36 & T-2228 to building 10250 on Fourth Ar-

mored Division Dr. All services will closed after 1300 on Friday

23 Mar 12 and reopen at our new location at 0730 on 27 Mar 12.

Operational hours will remained 0730-1600 Monday - Friday ex-

cept holidays.

We apologize for any inconvenience this presents. The move to

10250 will fully integrate both clinical and non-clinical services

of ASAP, which will allow us to efficiently and effectively provide fully integrated compre-

hensive care to the Fort Drum community.

Bldg 10250 is located on Fourth Armored Division Dr. between Euphrates River Valley Rd.

and Tigris River Valley Rd. All points of contact and phone numbers will remain the same.

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Kids Corner

“An Alpaca in My Pocket”

Mindy Whitten (3-10 Spouse) will be

selling and signing copies of her first

published book, ―An Alpaca in My

Pocket,‖ from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. March

30 and 31 at the Post Exchange.

Whitten also will read her book during

story time at McEwen Library March

23, April 17 and June 12. For more in-

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Whitten at AnAlpacaInMy-

[email protected].

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