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Periodic Health Assessment

As a service member on Active Duty or in the Selected Reserve (SELRES), you are responsible for maintaining your health and fitness as a condition of your continued military service. Use the Army Periodic Health Assessment (PHA) to fulfill this requirement and maintain awareness of your medical status. Soldier health and medical readiness encourages you to meet the Army Individual Medical Readiness (IMR) requirements and report any medical issues—be it physical, dental, or mental/behavioral health—that could impact your readiness to deploy, your ability to perform your assigned mission, or your fitness for retention in military service to your chain of command. While IMR requirements validate your readiness to deploy, it’s important to remember that IMR is not the only measure of your deployability status.

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SOLDIER HEALTH AND MEDICAL READINESS

Per the Army’s Office of the Surgeon General, “Medical Readiness allows the Army to mobilize Soldiers and meet the Army mission. Every Soldier is responsible for their medical readiness and must remain dedicated and resilient.” Pay attention to your health, take initiative, and protect those around you. For those of you who serve in harms way; being a Soldier is a contact sport. The Army’s soldier health and medical readiness is typically an afterthought, and yet it remains vital to your well-being at all times.

Do not become a Command and Staff PowerPoint casualty, be proactive, think ahead and remember that your readiness and the care of your subordinates is a leader’s responsibility. Use the Army Holistic Health and Fitness program for inspiration.

Remember your Periodic Health Assessment (PHA) helps review your soldier health which determines your readiness. You can start Phase I online and schedule Phase II with your PCM.

ARMY DEPLOYMENT LIMITING CODES (DL CODES)

The Army has seven Deployment Limiting Codes (DL Codes); DL 1 – 7. You can view the detail here or below in the FAQs.

EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 2023: Leidos Quality, Timeliness, Customer Service (QTC) will replace Logistics Health Incorporated (LHI) as the vendor for the Reserve Health Readiness Program. Please let us know if the process and customer service has improved.

MHS GENESIS

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Schedule appointments through your MTF, order refills, and download a copy of your individual medical records through the BlueButton. Check once a year, minimum.

MEDICAL READINESS PORTAL (MRP)

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For you to check Medical Readiness. Click ‘Individual MEDPORS’ to see your current status. Download your PHA, Vision, Immunization, Hearing, and DA Form 3349 (Profile).

SUICIDE AWARENESS

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The People First priority is designed to prevent suicide building a culture of resilience by increasing protective factors and encouraging help-seeking behaviors.

MEDICAL PROTECTION SYSTEM (MEDPROS)

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A comprehensive Medical Readiness portal for all medical and dental readiness requirements IAW AR 600-8-101. Leaders get an instant snapshot of immunizations, profiles, and more.

COMMANDER’S DENTAL DASHBOARD

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Check the status of your Soldier’s dental status with an easy-to-use portal. Two qualifiers: you need to be in a command team position and you need to have permissions granted.

ARMYFIT

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This website provides Soldiers with dedicated information regarding their physical, spiritual, psychological, family and social wellbeing.

ARMY TRICARE AND MEDICAL LINKS

Links to official Army and DoD websites that you need to maintain individual and family medical readiness across the force.

TRICARE

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The primary health program for uniformed Service Members, families, retired, and veterans.

QUALITY, TIMELINESS, CUSTOMER SERVICE

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QTC replaces LHI for certain remote Active, Reserve, and AGR units.

PERIODIC HEALTH (PHA)

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Your must complete your Phase I online and schedule your Phase II either with VIPRR or at your TMC.

VIRTUALLY INTEGRATED PATIENT READINESS AND REMOTE CARE (VIPRR) CLINIC

Complete your Phase/Part One portion online through MEDPROS, then call 1-844-863-3236 (VMEDCEN), and select option 1 to schedule your Virtual PHA. Their hours of operation are 0500-2000, Monday through Friday. Your Phase/Part Two is completed via telephone and updates in ~48 hours.

MILITARY LASER EYE SURGERY: WARFIGHTER REFRACTIVE EYE PROGRAM

This program provides active duty service members and aviators with Photo refractive keratectomy, or PRK, and laser assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) at all 26 military laser centers. This procedure enables the correction of most patients with nearsightedness, astigmatism or farsightedness.

TRICARE EAST (HUMANA)

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On TRICARE Prime or TRICARE Prime Remote? Access your referrals or authorizations.

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TRICARE WEST (HEALTH NET)

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On TRICARE Prime or TRICARE Prime Remote? Access your referrals or authorizations.

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ARMY INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL READINESS

You are responsible for ensuring you are ready to complete your assigned duties and tasks. DoD Instruction 1332.45 states that all soldiers, medical providers, and leaders must address any Individual Medical Readiness (IMR) deficiencies to ensure you are medically fit. IMR represents the foundation for a unit’s medical readiness and determines deployability. Army personnel readiness relies heavily on medical readiness, which directly impacts the Army’s mission. A lack of medical readiness is one of the primary reasons for soldiers becoming non-deployable. IMR information is entered into e-Profile or MEDPROS by your healthcare and administrative providers.

Below is a short list of your annual responsibilities:

  • Periodic Health Assessment (PHA) (required by DoD annually)
  • DL conditions (required by DoD)
  • DRC (required by DoD)
  • Immunization status (required by DoD)
  • HIV test and DNA specimen (required by DoD)
  • Individual medical equipment (required by DoD to include medical dog tags)
  • Hearing readiness (Army-specific requirement)
  • Vision readiness (Army-specific requirement to include mask inserts, two pairs of glasses, and goggle/eye pro inserts)

While each unit and chain-of-command has their own system, do not fall victim to the typical PowerPoint spotlight or doom (your name is on a slide in a red box which is typically not good).

Leaders, empower your junior leaders to have a vested interest in their soldier health and medical readiness. Company command teams should look to platoon leadership (in most formations) to identify and resolve potential readiness issues through proactive discussions and activities. Company training meetings become the forum to relay the information to command team. The command team then relays this information to the battalion staff to ‘balance the books’. This is a good example of bottom-up refinement and employing leaders to focus on the whole soldier concept and not just when told. Birth month audits at the company level (or PCS date) are recommended as this is a memorable window for most soldiers.

Take care of yourself, take care of each other.

PERIODIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR USAREC / USACC

This service is great for soldiers serving in USACC or USAREC and away from a military installation.

Typically you must be further than You can do your Periodic Health Assessment Phase II via the Virtually Integrated Patient Readiness and Remote Care (VIPRR) Clinic. If you are in USACC and must conduct your Phase II in person, schedule your appointment at the beginning or end of your Advanced Camp rotation at Fort Knox. Or, if you are attending a school, schedule it on the tail end of that course (i.e. Common Faculty Development – Instructor Course (CFD-IC), Master Educator Course (MEC), or University Senior Leader Course (USLC)).

THE US ARMY MEDICAL HEALTH SYSTEM (MHS) GENESIS

Your medical readiness comes in all forms and you need to maintain your documentation at all times; always work backwards from the VA physical. MHS GENESIS is the new electronic health record for the Military Health System (MHS). The system provides an enhanced experience to manage your health information. MHS GENESIS is the “new hotness” that integrates inpatient and outpatient solutions that will improve communication of medical and dental information. From point-of-injury to point-of-care, the goal is to help you and your treatment facility have a clearer understanding of your medical needs.

MHS GENESIS (MHS-G)

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The MHS GENESIS Patient Portal is a secure online portal to access your health information and manage appointments.

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MHS-G INFORMATION PAGE

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If the website loads, it is a great resource for learning about the Military Health System Genesis and its advanced benefits.

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ARMY MEDICAL READINESS FAQs

Your medical readiness comes in all forms and you need to maintain your documentation at all times; always work backwards from the VA physical. MHS GENESIS is the new electronic health record for the Military Health System (MHS). The system provides an enhanced experience to manage your health information. MHS GENESIS is the “new hotness” that integrates inpatient and outpatient solutions that will improve communication of medical and dental information. From point-of-injury to point-of-care, the goal is to help you and your treatment facility have a clearer understanding of your medical needs.

No matter your medical status, the Army, and in turn, senior leaders, need to understand the deployability status of all members in the unit. Below are the most common IMR categories:

  • Fully Medically Ready (FMR): In short, fully deployable or deployable with limitations. This status includes any condition or profile that is correctable or complete within 30 days.
  • Partially Medically Ready (PMR): Per DoDI 6025.19, “A category for Service members who are overdue for a DoD PHA, classified as DRC 4, or who lack one or more of the following: required immunizations, medical readiness laboratory studies, or individual medical equipment”
  • Not Medically Ready (NMR): Per DoDI 6025.19, any “deployment-limiting medical condition (DLMC) which is categorized as “temporary non-deployable” or “permanent non-deployable” for medical reasons or if they require urgent or emergency dental treatment (classified as DRC 3).”

A DRC is short for the Army Dental Readiness Code. There are four classes or categories?

  • Class 1 (DRC 1): “Service members are considered DRC 1 when they have a current dental readiness assessment and do not require dental treatment or re-evaluation.”
  • Class 2 (DRC 2): “Service members are considered DRC 2 when they have a current dental readiness assessment and require non-urgent dental treatment or re-evaluation for oral or dental conditions that are unlikely to result in dental emergencies “within 12 months.
  • Class 3 (DRC 3): “Service members are considered DRC 3 when they require resolution of an urgent or emergent dental treatment to be FMR. Service members classified as DRC 3 will be categorized as “temporary non-deployable” until the condition is resolved.”
  • Class 4 (DRC 4): “Service members are considered DRC 4 when they are overdue for their annual dental readiness assessment. DRC 4 Service members are considered PMR and will require their annual dental readiness assessment immediately upon being identified as FMR if no other IMR deficits exist.”

The deployment-limiting medical condition (DLMC) is a medical category. When the Army determines you are “temporary non-deployable” or “permanent non-deployable” for medical reasons in accordance with DoDI 1332.45 and/or if they require urgent or emergency dental treatment (classified as DRC 3).

Your unit healthcare provider or Physician’s Assistant (PA) will work with local Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) staff to determine your medical readiness. Once decided, you are assigned an MRC.

Per DA PAM 40–502, dated 27 June 2019, there are four (4) Medical Readiness Classifications or Codes.

  • Medical readiness class 1 – fully medically ready and includes temporary profiles ≤ 7 days
  • Medical readiness class 2 – partially medically ready and includes temporary profiles between 8 and 30 days and other conditions that are quickly correctable
  • Medical readiness class 3 – not medically ready and includes temporary profiles > 30 days and other conditions
  • Medical readiness class 4 – medical readiness indeterminate.

The Army has seven (7) deployment-limiting codes that include, but not limited to, the following:

  • DL 1: Temporary profile > 30 days
  • DL 2: Dental readiness class 3
  • DL 3: Pregnancy and postpartum
  • DL 4: Permanent profile indicating MOS Administrative Retention Review Program (MAR2) needed1
  • DL 5: Permanent profile indicating Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) needed2
  • DL 6: Permanent profile indicating non-duty related action is needed
  • DL 7: Permanent profiles with a deployment/assignment restriction code (F, V, or X)
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