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Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center Emergency Center recognized by STRAC
September 23, 2024 — As of Aug. 1, 2024, Wilford Hall Family Emergency Center was incorporated into the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, or STRAC, Trauma and Emergency Healthcare System as a Freestanding Emergency Center... MORE

Wilford Hall Emergency Center member talks to inspectors

A year later, BAMC doctor reunites with patient he helped save
April 19, 2022 — Last April, a Military Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine fellow from Brooke Army Medical Center was on a routine ride-along with Austin/Travis County Emergency Medical Services when they responded to a 911 call about a 29-year-old female who went into cardiac arrest at a cross fit gym. On April 5, exactly one year later, Army Capt. (Dr.) Jason Ausman was finally able to meet Tamra Harris, the woman he helped to save... MORE

METC respiratory therapy instructors train Fort Hood EMS paramedics
March 27, 2019 — Two instructors with the Medical Education and Training Campus Respiratory Therapy Technician program at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston have been traveling to Fort Hood, Texas, to train emergency medical services personnel... MORE

Staff Sgt. Modesto Ortega conducts emergency medical EMS transport and mechanical ventilation training for EMS/paramedics attached to Fort Hood and the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center's emergency department.

EMT Instructor course builds Air Force firefighters capabilities
October 18, 2018 — Air Force firefighters from several military installations across the United States will be certified as Emergency Medical Technician Instructors through an emergency management services course at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Oct. 15-19... MORE

BAMC Emergency Medicine Residents Day highlights prehospital medicine, partnerships
May 7, 2018 — The San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (Emergency Medical Services) and Disaster Medicine Fellowship hosted the first EMS Residents Day March 29 at the Bulverde Centre for Emergency Health Sciences... MORE

Brooke Army Medical Center Emergency Medicine resident, Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Anna Waller, performs an endotracheal intubation on a cadaver model during an ambulance transport while her colleagues observe and assist at the Bulverde Centre for Emergency Health Sciences as part of EMS Residents Day March 29.