FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas –
New construction of two facilities and renovation work at
the Center for the Intrepid are keeping construction workers busy on the Brooke Army Medical Center
campus and have resulted in the temporary loss of more than 200 patient parking
spaces.
A new shuttle bus is delivering staff from the parking
garage to free up more spaces for patients’ convenience, allowing them to park
closer to San Antonio Military Medical Center for their appointments.
In Parking Lot D, construction began in September on a new
fire station. The new facility will serve to protect the patients and staff of
the BAMC Campus and will be operated by the 502nd Civil Engineering Squadron
Emergency Services.
The fire station will be about 13,000 square feet and is
expected to be completed next September.
Also under construction just outside SAMMC’s main entrance
is a hyperbaric facility addition, which is also about 13,000 square feet.
Construction is expected to be completed next July.
Hyperbaric medicine provides treatment for wound care,
decompression sickness, arterial gas embolisms, carbon monoxide poisoning and
provides the only active duty hyperbaric fellowship program.
At the Center for the Intrepid, construction of transition
space was recently completed, so the fabrication unit could move to temporary
quarters while the second floor is renovated for the expanded IDEO operation.
Renovation work is expected to be completed next April.