Army Techniques Publication 4-02.55 updates Army Health System planning topics while adopting current terminology and concepts as necessary. The Army Health System is a complex system of interrelated and interdependent systems which provides a continuum of medical treatment from point of injury or wounding through successive roles of medical care and is inextricably linked to the Military Health System through the Defense Health Agency Role 4 Hospitals for the provision of definitive care as patients are evacuated to continental United States from Role 3 medical treatment facilities in theater. The medical planner is able to provide the best possible Army Health System for all Army operations by carefully applying operational medicine doctrine and principles.
DesignationATP 4-02.55
EditionMar 2020
StatusActive
ProponentTRADOC
Pages150
FunctionMedical TCCC
CollectionCurrent Doctrine
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. This publication supersedes ATP 4-02.55, dated 16 September 201