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Brooke Army Medical Center

Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) is the United States Army's premier medical institution. Located on Fort Sam Houston, BAMC, a 425-bed Academic Medical Center, is the Department of Defense's largest facility and only Level 1 Trauma Center. BAMC is also home to the Center for the Intrepid, an outpatient rehabilitation facility. The center is composed of ten separate organizations, including community medical clinics, centered around the Army's largest in-patient hospital.[1] BAMC is staffed by more than 8,000 Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, Civilians, and Contractors providing care to wounded Service Members and the San Antonio Community at-large.[2]

Brooke Army Medical Center

1946–present

 United States

United States of America

United States Army

Hospital

450 beds

Fort Sam Houston

https://bamc.tricare.mil

Colonel Mark Stackle

San Antonio, Texas

30 acres (120,000 m2)

1937

Mission/Spanish Revival

Fort Sam Houston (ID75001950)

01001281

November 30, 2001

May 15, 1975

1870 to 1875 - City of San Antonio donates 92 acres (370,000 m2) for an Army post

1879 - temporary wooden (board and batten, not log) 12-bed hospital built

1886 - permanent, brick 12-bed hospital built to replace the temporary one

1908 - Station Hospital built to accommodate 84 beds

1910 - two wings added to Station Hospital, increasing its capacity by 68 beds

1912 - an isolation ward and a maternity ward added to Station Hospital

1936 - construction begins on new Station Hospital building, on the site of the old Camp Travis Base Hospital

1938 - new Station Hospital opens with a 418-bed capacity

1941 to 1945 - Station Hospital expands by converting barracks to hospital wards

1942 - Station Hospital named Brooke General Hospital

1942 - psychiatric ward built in Old Station Hospital area

1945 - 15th Field Artillery Barracks become Annex IV, increasing capacity to 7,800 beds

1946 - the Medical Field Service School (MFSS) is moved to Fort Sam Houston. The medical entities are reorganized and designated Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC)

1959 - Annex IV is designated Beach Pavilion

1959 - psychiatric ward is designated Chambers Pavilion

1975 - added to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property of the Fort Sam Houston Historic District

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1983 - design authority issued for a facility to replace BAMC's 59 separate buildings

1985 - concept design started for the new BAMC

1992 - construction of new BAMC starts

1996 - new BAMC opens

2001 - added individually to the National Register of Historic Places

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2005 - BRAC 2005 recommends (172 Med 10) the realignment of inpatient services and related specialty care from (WHMC) to Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), creating the San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC)

Wilford Hall Medical Center

2009 - BRAC construction begins

2011 - Parking Garage opened

2012 - Consolidated Tower (CoTo) wing opened

2015 - The new dining hall opens

San Antonio Military Medical Center

Brook Army Medical Center

Medical Therapy of Prostatic Symptoms page about Brooke Army Medical Center - SAMMC-North

from the Handbook of Texas Online

Brooke Army Medical Center

29°27′38″N 98°24′56″W / 29.4605°N 98.4156°W / 29.4605; -98.4156