MEDICAL OVERVIEW
Brooke Army Medical Center is a modern
state-of-the-art, 450 beds, health care facility that provides Level 1 Trauma,
and Graduate Medical Education. The physical appearance and
efficiency of space throughout the hospital creates a user-friendly, high
quality health care environment for patients, their families and health care
providers.
The Medical Center accommodates programs supporting its
pursuit of treatment and health maintenance excellence. These include
the graduate medical education, clinical investigation and research, which are
essential components of its mission. Located in the eastern sector of
Fort Sam Houston, this ultra modern facility, incorporating many high technology
features, is six times larger than the old Main Hospital. The Medical
Center complex houses seven buildings, with a total of 1,473 million square feet
of operational space and one million square feet of interstitial
space. It includes a medical treatment facility, a medical research
laboratory and a central energy plant.
The multi-storied medical
treatment facility is the primary structure in the medical
complex. It contains 1.4 million feet of space. There are
450 inpatient beds of which 48 are ICU beds and 40 are dedicated to the
Institute of Surgical Research. The Hospital is capable of expanding
to 651 beds if needed to support wartime mobilization.
The hospital
includes 12 operating rooms, five oral surgery suites, four dental rooms, a
diagnostic and therapeutic radiology center, a same day surgery suite and the
requisite outpatient clinic and ancillary support services. The
auditorium on the fourth floor seats 278 and the dining facility on the lower
level seats 198.
Brooke Army Medical Center is the Army's most modern
health care facility and the Army's only Level 1 Trauma Center. The
graduate medical education programs, residents and fellowships provide the
highest quality specialty care. Here is the home of the world famous
Institute for Surgical Research and it's Burn Center. There are 58 specialty
clinics and we conduct more than 600 ongoing research protocols each year in
areas such as cardiology, dermatology, orthopedics, urology and emergency
medicine.
Postgraduate education is integral to the Medical Center
mission. There are almost 275 physicians in intern, residency and
fellowship training in 24 specialties annually. More than 550 medical
students rotate through the clinic internship from many civilian medical schools
each year. Other courses at BAMC include physical therapy, dietetics,
pharmacy, health care administration, operating room nursing, critical care
nursing and clinical pastoral education.
Technology of the 21st century
and continuing innovation are the ingredients of "the hospital without
walls." Medical technology and expertise is available from Brooke
Army Medical Center to health care providers regardless of whether they are
working in a hospital environment, providing medical care to soldiers deployed
anywhere in the world, or assisting with humanitarian missions.
Sick call
for all military personnel assigned to Fort Sam Houston, except those at BAMC,
is held at the McWethy Troop Medical Clinic which is located on Garden Street,
next to Budge Dental Clinic. Sick call for Fort Sam Houston trainees is from
0515-0730 on walk in basis. Permanently assigned active duty to Fort Sam Houston
should call 916-3000 to make either an urgent or routine care appointment.
Emergencies are seen on a walk in basis. Active Duty members assigned
to BAMC should call 916-3000 to schedule their sick call appointments with BAMC
Family Medicine Service. All active duty should have an "Individual
Sick Slip," DD Form 689, from their unit or ID Card before reporting to sick
call.
Active duty members assigned to Fort Sam Houston or BAMC along with
any enrolled TRICARE Prime beneficiary enrolled to any BAMC TRICARE Prime Clinic
can be seen after duty hours from 1630 to 2030 at the BAMC Consolidated Primary
Care Clinic located next to the emergency room at BAMC.