What We Do
Our Healthcare Models
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PregnancyHealth® Readiness
The Pregnancy Readiness Collaborative Community Group Care Model for Active Duty, Veterans, and their Tricare beneficiaries provides comprehensive, culturally sensitive, and accessible prenatal care. With an emphasis on physical, emotional, and social health, this model equips families with the resources and support they need to navigate pregnancy, birth, and postpartum within the unique context of military life. By fostering a sense of community and preparing participants for the challenges of during and after military service, this model promotes a healthier, more resilient family environment.
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PostpartumHealth® Readiness
The Postpartum Readiness Collaborative Community Group Care Model for military personnel, veterans, and Tricare beneficiaries is designed to provide holistic, accessible, and comprehensive care to new parents navigating the postpartum period in the context of military life. By emphasizing peer support, mental health care, family wellness, and medical oversight, this model aims to build resilience in military families and ensure long-term health and well-being for postpartum mothers. The program’s flexibility and focus on military-specific challenges make it adaptable to a wide range of family situations, ensuring care and support are always available, regardless of geographic location or deployment status.
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PediatricHealth® Readiness
The Pediatric Readiness Collaborative Community Group Care Model for military families is designed to provide comprehensive medical, emotional, and social support for children and their families within the unique context of military life. This model integrates regular pediatric check-ups, preventive health education, emotional well-being support, and community building to address the distinct challenges military families face, such as frequent relocations (PCS), parental deployments, and shifting school environments. The care model aims to create a nurturing environment for children while empowering military parents with the tools and resources they need to ensure their child’s healthy development.
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HealthCare® Readiness
The Healthcare Readiness Collaborative Community Group Care model is designed to provide military families with comprehensive, accessible care that addresses a wide range of health needs. This model integrates the management of comorbidities and generalized health conditions, with a particular emphasis on women’s health. It focuses on ensuring women and their families are deployment-ready by providing specialized care that supports their health before, during, and after deployment. Additionally, the model offers tailored healthcare support for Veterans, helping them navigate the unique physical and mental health challenges they face. By fostering a community-centered approach, MillECare® ensures service members and their families receive the resources and care necessary to maintain readiness and well-being.
How MillECare® Delivers Mission-Ready Healthcare
Our healthcare model supports individuals and strengthens patient-provider relationships by bringing patients out of the exam room and into a comfortable home-like setting. During these billable visits, providers see a group of 8–12 patients(pregnancy and postpartum), 6-9 parent/child (pediatrics), and 8-12 patients with similar health conditions (generalized healthcare) for a 90–120-minute appointments. Each appointment includes an innovative and military-focused approach that combines clinical assessments, health education, and collaborative community-building in a Community “group” setting. It is specifically designed to address the unique needs of Active-Duty members and their Tricare beneficiaries while aligning with the nationally recognized clinical standards of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) guidelines for prenatal and postpartum care, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines for pediatric and adolescent care, and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) guidelines for care of specific chronic health conditions.
Placing education and resources at the forefront
Patients are given access to an abundance of resources to support them with pregnancy, the postpartum period, pediatric care and/or other health situations and comorbidities. Collaborative community care groups provide the opportunity to prioritize educating participants on topics such as contraception, injuries, infections, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, postpartum care, confidence in pediatric care decisions, managing deployments and frequent PCS moves, and more. Because of this, patients are more likely to attend their postpartum visits, have healthier pregnancy spacing, be empowered to make informed decisions on their care, and build trust in seeking care at Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) when they offer our healthcare model.
Why this Mission is essential
Collaborative Community “Group” care is crucial for active-duty service members, veterans, and their Tricare beneficiaries considering it provides a supportive, community-driven approach that fosters connection, shared learning, and resilience. Military families often face unique challenges, such as frequent relocations, deployments, and the pressures of service life, making access to consistent, reliable care crucial. In group care settings, families can share experiences, learn from others, and build a sense of camaraderie that alleviates feelings of isolation. This collaborative model also offers cost-effective, evidence-based care that supports health outcomes, while enhancing mental and emotional well-being. By connecting military families with others facing similar challenges, group care helps create a sense of solidarity and readiness, ensuring families are better equipped to handle both everyday health needs and the stresses of military life.
GolD Star Results
Multiple published studies and peer-reviewed articles on group care at MTFs have shared the significant benefits for military families and the healthcare team.
These outcomes have resulted in active-duty service members spending less time away from work, better utilization of MTFs for care, and and estimated $4,562,121 in combined cost savings.
Measurable data was based on 3,000 active-duty service members and their Tricare beneficiaries who received group prenatal care at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune from 2014-2021.