Definition: (DOD) A joint force health
service support center under the control of the subordinate joint force surgeon,
established to coordinate and control, in terms of identifying bed space
requirements, the movement of patients within and out of the joint operations
area. The joint patient movement requirements center also generates subordinate
joint force commander (JFC) plans and schedules to evacuate the subordinate
JFC's patients to medical treatment facilities in accordance with the supported
combatant commander's Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center theater plans
and schedules for movement of the patient to the Medical Treatment Facility.
Also called JPMRC. See also health service support; joint force surgeon; joint
operations area; medical treatment facility; patient.
