The military planners and also the civilian planners is definitely going to be bearing fruit in years to come when something happens. I know we are quite a bit ahead of time, you are going to have a 20minute break from now and then our next speaker will come up at that point. Thank you again. He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendou
He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. General spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here who is in the readiness business, i am honored to be speaking to a group of people and that would include i think everybody in this hanger deck who is part of that cadre of indiv
Something happens. I know we are quite a bit ahead of time, you are going to have a 20minute break from now and then our next speaker will come up at that point. Thank you again. He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. General spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here
Crushed that we need to off load patients to other counties, to other states, to other areas in the country . Do your roads work . Do you have a transportation infrastructure, do you have a Communications Net up . No . We can bring that. We come as we are. We constantly prepare for the next major conflict. In the navy our motto is this is big navys motto a global force for good. We believe that we operate on a continuum of bringing heat and light. You are sitting on one of those platforms right now. You are sitting on this amazing lhd, the uss macon island, it can bring the heat or it can bring the light. Do you want to get a little twitchy around the world and you want to sort of rattle the cage a little bit and test our will and show bravado . You dont want an Amphibious Group showing up off your shore. That can be a bad day for you. On the other hand, wed like to bring the light. Wed like to bring the medical prowess, its ability to generate electricity for you, wed like to bring it
Important. Capturing that information on dhv and know they would be able to go to other facilities if need be is one of our big to do items. Each hospital is also required to have a whole plan for credentialing volunteer medical professionals, both those who are licensed independent practitioners and those who have either certifications or other nonlicensed kind of Health Care Practitioners and a whole way to integrate them into their response if necessary. Its part of the joint Commission Standards for hospitals in planning for Emergency Response as well. The military has no problem, then, your shock trauma platoon comes in and you have medical personnel, i guess i was aiming at the military side. If we have inaudible does that apply to the military. Many of them who serve in california are not licensed in california, the military has a waiver for that requirement. So im not certain how that would apply if were using those folks in a humanitarian disaster in california. Were able to t