William Beaumont Army Medical Center is a Department of Defense medical facility located in El Paso, Texas. It provides comprehensive care to all beneficiaries including active duty military, family members, and retirees. This hospital is located in the Central/Northeast of El Paso. and providing emergency department services for Northeast El Paso.
Fort Bliss Replacement Hospital Complex holds a dry-in ritual of 12 July 2017. Dry-in is a construction milestone that signals that weather-sensitive construction can begin inside the hospital. The new 1.1-square-foot, 6-building medical complex will reside at East Fort Bliss and is projected to open in mid-2019.
WBAMC is affiliated with Paul L. Foster Medical School, also located in El Paso, Texas. WBAMC is also a participating hospital for medical residents of the University Health Sciences Service Uniform (USU) and nursing students from the University of Texas at El Paso Nursing School and the El Paso Community Nursing School. The current commander of the WBAMC is Colonel Erik Rude.
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History
The William Beaumont Army Medical Center (WBAMC), formerly William Beaumont General Hospital (WBGH), is currently located northwest of the main baron area of ​​Fort Bliss, between Fred Wilson Road and Hayes Avenue. This hospital had its beginnings at Fort Bliss during the 1850s. After several steps earlier, Fort Bliss moved to a permanent location at La Noria Mesa in 1893. The hospital was named after the military surgeon William Beaumont (1785-1853), "Father of Stomach Physiology".
In the early years (1849-1892)
Since the beginning of 1849, a medical unit supporting Army installations in El Paso has moved several times. In January 1854, "Post El Paso del Norte", was founded in Magoffin Farm. This installation at Magoffin's Ranch was officially known as Fort Bliss on March 8, 1854, in honor of Lieut. Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss a veteran of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) cited for valor in action. In 1868 the Army's installation was moved to Camp Concordia; returning to downtown El Paso in 1878; to Hart's Mill in the 1880s; and finally to La Noria Mesa in 1893 on land donated by the citizens of El Paso. The La Noria Mesa site remains as a permanent station for Fort Bliss and its medical units.
The remains of the original Army Hospital located at Hart Mill were discovered by archaeologists in 2012 near the main campus of the University of Texas in El Paso. The Army used military personnel to build post hospital at Hart Mill, which was completed in December 1880.
Formative Year (1893-1898)
In the 1890s he built a permanent hospital at Fort Bliss to support permanent regimental posts along the border. Twenty-nine buildings and a parade of land still exist from this period at Fort Bliss and contribute to the Fort Bliss Main Post Historic District, to include Fort Bliss Fort Hospital, completed in 1893. The building, now known as Gedung 8, is currently the location of the Office of the Inspector General of Fort Bliss. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 23 February 1972. Spanish-American War (1898-1902) "> Spanish-American War (1898 - Spanish-American_War_ (1898-1902)"> Spanish-American War (1898-1990) 1902)
During this period, the hospital supported a skeleton garrison at Fort Bliss, containing no more than 100 soldiers. Only in 1902 and the end of the Philippine Uprising, the hospital supported a full army at Fort Bliss. In 1902 the hospital, along with all the buildings at Fort Bliss, had fallen into disrepair. Lieutenant Colonel H.H. Adams, from the 18th Infantry Regiment, presided over the post in 1902 and reported that the hospital housekeeper needed "extensive repairs."
Fort Bliss's new post hospital (1903-1919)
In its 1903 report, the inspector general found that Fort Bliss hospital was one of several in the Texas Department that showed "defective construction due to lower materials or poor workmanship, or both." The Commander of the Texas Department agreed in the same year, "A new hospital at Fort Bliss is undoubtedly necessary." In the summer of 1904, a new department commander, Brigadier Jesse M. Lee, toured Fort Bliss and wrote a report that generally criticized the post. Lee reports a new hospital is being built.
On December 1, 1917, the field hospital company 3 left Fort Bliss, then sailed from Hoboken on 5 December, and arrived at Saint-Nazaire on 22 December, among the last elements of the 1st Infantry Division to arrive in France and then the Western Front.
The first Army dental training school was set up at Fort Bliss Post Hospital in September 1916 by Capt. Robert T. Oliver. School of dentistry at Fort Bliss Post Hospital serves as a model for similar efforts in the camps mobilization after declaration of war against Germany on 6 April 1917.
William Beaumont General Hospital (1920-1939)
General Command no. 40 The War Department, June 26, 1920, determined that the new hospital at Fort Bliss was named after Maj. William Beaumont, one of the most famous surgeons of the "Old Army". William Beaumont General Hospital opened on July 1, 1921, and was completed in 1922. Originally composed of 41 buildings and 403 beds, with an additional 100 additional emergency sleeping spaces. The new hospital building is made of tiles and plastering.
The construction of 48 WBGH buildings in 1920-21 marked the beginning of Fort Bliss's role as a major military medical center. Over the next two decades, WBGH served as the hospital of Fort Bliss station and as a public hospital for the western part of the 8th Army Service Command. In the staff there are six medical officers, two nurses and 30 medical corps. The original mission of WBGH is to provide general medical care to the border patrol troops stationed at Fort Bliss. However, in the 1930s, the hospital served the entire western part of the Corps of the Eight Corps, providing health care to soldiers stationed at posts in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.
World War II and after (1940-1968)
WBGH served as one of the many prisoner-of-war hospitals across the United States that supported prisoner-of-war camps at Fort Bliss and surrounding camps during World War II.
During early 1945, about 6,000 inpatients were treated. In addition, military schools for medical technicians offer specialized training in surgical, dental, laboratory, x-ray, pharmaceutical, and veterinary procedures. The hospital has complete physical therapy and an occupational therapy center. Also, artificial eye clinics are opened. Later, the hospital expanded into neuro-psychiatric care and orthopedic surgery center. After the war, WBGH continued to serve the medical needs of Fort Bliss and its surrounding military installations until the needs of the Army exceeded the capacity of the hospital. During the war, William Beaumont General Hospital trained some 16,000 medical technicians, including more than a thousand WAC recruits. The hospital is also a center of specialization for plastic surgery, eye surgery, neuropsychiatry, and deep radiation therapy. In the final year of the war alone, about 26,358 patients received medical care at the hospital.
At the end of 1945, Wernher von Braun and the original 82 members of the Paperclip Project group used one of the old WBGH buildings as their original labs and headquarters as noted by the Army historians:
Tim von Braun set up shop in the remains of a dusty former hospital. The wooden buildings do not contain laboratories or equipment but they are the best that can be given at that time. At least that is the place to start, and it's close to a new missile range in White Sands, New Mexico.
Beaumont was one of only ten of the sixty-three Army hospitals retained after World War II. In addition to providing medical care to return injured soldiers during the conflict in Korea and Vietnam, the hospital also provides general medicines and surgical services to veterans and personnel at Fort Bliss and other regional military installations.
William Beaumont Army Medical Center (1969-present)
In 1969, the Army initiated the construction of a new 12-story hospital in the west of the WBGH region. Completed in 1972, this new facility is known as William Beaumont Army Medical Center . The building is in the architectural style of modernism, with a 124-foot tower. Although originally designed for 611 beds, in the early 1980s the hospital had a capacity of 463. The Omar N. Bradley Building, an addition to the west side of the main hospital, opened in 1982; it provides an additional 200,000 square feet (19,000m 2 ) clinical and administrative space. Currently, the hospital has a bed capacity for more than 150 patients; during an emergency, the hospital can grow to 373 patients. As a major regional army medical center in the Southwest, this modern facility now provides medical care for active and retired military personnel and their dependents in the three states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Major General (Dr.) Charles C. Pixley, hospital commander from September 1975 to December 1976, was promoted to lieutenant general in 1977 and became the Surgeon General of the Army.
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Fisher House
The Fisher House Foundation, which provides free lodging for military families with hospitalized relatives, operates facilities at WBAMC. It celebrates its 20th anniversary of operation on February 22, 2014.
Unit badge
The design of the WBAMC unit symbolizes several highlights from the name of Dr. WBAMC. William Beaumont, patient of Beaumont Alexis St. Martin, the medical tradition of the unit, and the location of the unit in El Paso.
Fleur-de-lis pointing to the north refers to the assignment of Dr. Beaumont in 1820 to the Northern Michigan post at Fort Mackinac. The circular window in the center of the cross refers to Alexis St. Martin who never closed, presents Beaumont with a window where he can learn how the human belly works. The traditional white and maroon color for the US Army Medical Department. The Maltese Cross refers to the medieval Knights Hospitallers as a symbol of the medical profession. The WBAMC location in El Paso, Texas is represented by the vertical arm of a cross passing between the mountains (referring to El Paso's English translation as "pass") and ending in the blue waves representing the Rio Grande.
Famous patient
- Omar N. Bradley, the last American five-star general, lived during his retirement at a special residence at William Beaumont Army Medical Center.
- William O. Wooldridge, First Army Major Sergeant treated at WBAMC
- Some Prisoners of War (POW) from the 2003 invasion of Iraq were treated at WBAMC.
Co-located Veteran Health Center
VA Health Care System El Paso has a joint venture with William Beaumont Army Medical Center. This joint venture allows both activities to maximize resource utilization. Through a joint venture, VA purchases emergency department services and inpatient care for medical emergencies, psychiatric and acute surgery. This joint venture has resulted in a unique agreement that improves patient access in general surgery and vascular surgery.
See also
- MEDCOM
- Uniform Service of University of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Medicine Paul L. Foster
- Dr. William Beaumont
- Major General (Dr.) Charles C. Pixley
- Fort Bliss
- General Omar Bradley
- Sergeant Major Army William O. Wooldridge
References
External links
- William Beaumont Army Health Center, official website
- Faculty of Medicine Paul L. Foster
- William Beaumont's Army Health Center on Facebook
- William Beaumont Army Health Center, Medical Education Graduate
This article contains information originally from US Government publications and websites and is in the public domain.
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