Military-civilian partnership with ucsd [mission zero] - the applicant, university of california SAN diego, proposes a five-year military-civilian partnership for trauma readiness project hosted at…

Military-civilian partnership with ucsd [mission zero] - the applicant, university of california SAN diego, proposes a five-year military-civilian partnership for trauma readiness project hosted at the level 1 trauma center at its hillcrest campus. The goal of the project is to enable a military trauma teams to provide, on a full-time basis, trauma care and related acute care the trauma center. The objectives are: 1) to provide dementia specific care, e.g., care management fully integrated into the services provided; 2) to train staff, students and volunteers; 3) to establish a system infrastructure to support services to individuals with early stage dementia and to their caregivers; 4) to develop linkages with community agencies; 5) to expand the assessment and intervention services; 6) to evaluate the impact of the added services; 7) to disseminate project information. The expected outcomes of this project are: 1)the military trauma team will provide trauma care and acute care on a full-time basis; 2) military caregivers will have demonstrated improved knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) in trauma, disaster and acute care areas; and 3) military caregivers and trauma team will become facile with trauma team quality and performance improvement and demonstrate characteristics of a high-reliability teams (HRT). The products from this project are: 1) a final report, including aggregate KSA evaluation results and effects on the trauma center; 2) a website; articles for publication; 3) data on driver assessment and 4) enduring educational materials; abstracts for national conferences.