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Key Points

• The Army's current strategy for equipping Combat Support Hospitals (CSHs) does not cost-effectively manage medical equipment maintenance and obsolescence.
• When not deployed, active component CSHs want more medical capability at home station but less equipment to maintain; nondeployed Army Reserve CSHs want even less equipment.
• A RAND Arroyo Center team used input from CSH commanders and others to design equipment sets for home stations that would substantially reduce maintenance and costs.
• The overall equipping strategy would provide commanders with local equipment sets that meet the training needs they described, reduce the total amount of equipment, require more sharing of equipment, and allow affordable, ongoing equipment modernization.