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Retirees get special treatment at JBSA
October 31, 2019 — Joint Base San Antonio gave a segment of the community some special treatment during its annual Retiree Appreciation Day, hosted by Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Oct. 19... MORE

U.S. Air Force Capt. Derrick Wells, executive officer, Department of Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center (right) hands out information brochures to patrons during Joint Base San Antonio’s Military Retiree Appreciation Day Oct. 19, hosted by BAMC.

Honduran readiness exercises provide invaluable surgical, training opportunities
October 25, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center personnel participated in two separate medical readiness exercises in Honduras recently... MORE

(From Left) Army Spc. Abdiel Santos-Soto, Air Force Maj. Julia Nuelle and Air Force Capt. Tayt Ellison harvest bone to perform a fibular bone graft Sept. 19 during a Medical Readiness Exercise in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A team of 19 military medical personnel from Brooke Army Medical Center and other military treatment facilities completed 128 procedures from Sept. 14-27.

BAMC celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
October 17, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center held a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration Oct. 11 to honor the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States military... MORE

Command Sgt. Maj. Alberto Delgado, U.S. Army North command sergeant major and the senior enlisted leader for Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston and JBSA-Camp Bullis, speaks during the Brooke Army Medical Center Hispanic Heritage celebration Oct. 11, 2019. This year’s theme is “Honoring Hispanic Americans: Essential to the Blueprint of Our Nation.”

Mountain cedar allergy season right around the corner
October 10, 2019 — It's that time of year again, when people start sneezing and coughing and they don't know if it's from allergies or a cold. One of the most common allergens in central and south Texas is mountain cedar... MORE

Army Col. (Dr.) Kirk Waibel, allergist/immunologist, prepares to give a mountain cedar allergy test to Army Sgt. Javier Pacheco in the Allergy/Immunology Clinic at Brooke Army Medical Center Oct. 8. Mountain cedar is one of the most common allergens in central and south Texas.

Soldier self-amputates leg to aid battle buddies
October 4, 2019 — A year after his accident and the loss of his leg, Spc. Ezra Maes is still amazed at the circumstances that led to his survival. If you ask, he’ll credit his survival to a uniform belt, smart phone and “shockingly good” cell service. What the 21-year-old Soldier fails to mention is the sheer force of will it took for him to stay alive. ... MORE

Candace Pellock, physical therapy assistant, guides with Spc. Ezra Maes at the Center for the Intrepid, Brooke Army Medical Center’s cutting-edge rehabilitation center on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Oct. 2, 2019.

BAMC honors Fisher House founder
September 30, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center staff, patients and beneficiaries took to the field just outside two of BAMC’s Fisher Houses at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston to hold a Founder’s Day Celebration Sept. 20 to honor Zachary Fisher, who initiated the Fisher House program in 1990... MORE

Brooke Army Medical Center’s Color Guard posts the colors at the BAMC Fisher House’s 26th Annual Founder’s Day Celebration at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Sept. 20. The celebration is held every year to honor Fisher House founder, Zachary Fisher.

BAMC provides comprehensive resource for recovering stroke, brain injury patients
September 26, 2019 — Air Force 1st Lt. Jason Hibbetts sits in front of a mirror practicing his salute. This simple action that used to come so naturally now requires much more concentration because the cyber warfare operator, husband and father of two young children suffered a stroke in October 2018... MORE

Air Force 1st Lt. Jason Hibbetts sits in front of a mirror practicing his salute Aug. 13 at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service at Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The BIRS provides comprehensive out-patient neurorehabilitation for service members, family members and military retirees who are recovering from a stroke or other brain injuries.

BAMC staff helps train Department of Defense doctors
September 11, 2019 — Critical Care staff from Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston helped conduct two days of validation training for military doctors from around the country during the first week of September... MORE

U.S. Army Capt. Mary Truitt, an internist from Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia, performs a survey on a simulated trauma patient at Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Sept. 4. Military doctors from around the country attended training at BAMC for validation training for the Army’s Individual Common Task List and the Air Force Comprehensive Medical Readiness Program requirements.

Brooke Army Medical Center celebrates women’s right to vote
September 5, 2019 — Staff and visitors at Brooke Army Medical Center celebrated women’s right to vote at the annual Women’s Equality Day observance Aug. 27. The observance was held in celebration of the 19th Amendment, which was passed Aug. 18, 1920, and gave women in the U.S. the right to vote. ... MORE

Jean Aratingi speaks at the Women’s Equality observance at Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Aug. 27. Aratingi, a member of the League of Women Voters since 1974, talked about the history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement from 1848 to 1920.

BAMC staff holds ‘Stop The Bleed’ training for City of San Antonio personnel
August 30, 2019 — Staff from the Brooke Army Medical Center’s Trauma Clinic held "Stop the Bleed" training for a City of San Antonio councilmember and more than two dozen council staff members, along with San Antonio Police Department officers and personnel, during two sessions held at city facilities the last week of August... MORE

Gina Pickard, Trauma Division manager at Brooke Army Medical Center’s Trauma Clinic, shows City of San Antonio council staff members how to pack a wound during Stop the Bleed held at the Plaza de Armas building in downtown San Antonio Aug. 29. The training consisted of a presentation where attendees learned the “ABCs of Bleeding Control” along with some hands-on practice in applying tourniquets, packing wounds and applying direct pressure to stop bleeding.

BAMC oxygen therapy helps patient heal after multiple surgeries
August 21, 2019 — The Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic at Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston uses oxygen therapy to treat patients who have a wide range of illnesses and injuries... MORE

A staff member places a patient into the single hyperbaric oxygen chamber at the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic at Brooke Army Medical Center. Hyperbaric oxygen is an intervention in which an individual breathes nearly 100 percent oxygen while inside a hyperbaric chamber that is pressurized to greater than sea level pressure.

Brooke Army Medical Center commanding general holds first town hall
August 20, 2019 — Brig. Gen. Wendy Harter, Brooke Army Medical Center commanding general, held her first all-hands town hall Aug. 14 to share her command priorities and answer questions from the staff... MORE

Brig. Gen. Wendy Harter, Brooke Army Medical Center commanding general, responds to a question during her first all-hands town hall Aug. 14.

Youth volunteers gain valuable experience at BAMC
August 9, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center’s Youth Volunteer Program provides teens ages 14 to 17 with military medicine experience. The program is unique to San Antonio and is sponsored by the San Antonio American Red Cross. ... MORE

Youth volunteers Sierra Trapolsi and Amber Miller intubate a simulated pediatric patient in the Simulation Center at Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston July 9. BAMC’s Summer Youth Volunteer Program is an extension of the commanding general’s Community Outreach Program and is sponsored by the American Red Cross.

BAMC volunteer honors his calling by helping others
July 24, 2019 — A Brooke Army Medical Center volunteer found his spiritual calling at age 50 and has been giving back ever since. ... MORE

Phillip Lewis (right), on-call chaplain and post anesthesia care unit volunteer, talks with a family in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit at Brooke Army Medical Center, while Air Force Maj. Katherine M. Slogic, pediatric anesthesiologist, listens to the patient’s lungs April 16.

BAMC unveils painting by wounded warrior
July 23, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center recently hosted an unveiling ceremony in the Medical Mall for a painting donated by former United Nations Ambassador Warren W. Tichenor... MORE

Retired Sgt. Mario Lopez poses for a photo with Brooke Army Medical Center staff members after his painting of the American flag is unveiled in the Medical Mall of the hospital at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Lopez, a former BAMC patient who was severely injured in an IED attack in Afghanistan in 2008, learned to use painting therapeutically to help him overcome an array of challenges he has faced over the past decade. The painting was donated to BAMC by former United Nations Ambassador Warren W. Tichenor.

BAMC laboratory services accredited for more than 50 years
July 23, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center Department of Pathology and Area Laboratory Services has been recognized as one of the longest College of American Pathologists-accredited laboratories in the United States... MORE

Brooke Army Medical Center Department of Pathology and Area Laboratory Services has been recognized as one of the longest College of American Pathologists-accredited laboratories in the United States.

BAMC welcomes first woman commander
July 17, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center experienced a unique "first" during the change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston July 16. Brig. Gen. George Appenzeller relinquished command to Brig. Gen. Wendy L. Harter, making her the first woman to command BAMC in its storied history... MORE

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Johnson (right), Regional Health Command-Central commanding general, presents the guideon to U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Wendy L. Harter (left), Brooke Army Medical Center commanding general, at a change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston July 16. Harter is BAMC’s first female commanding general.

Clinics, patients turn to hyperbaric medicine at BAMC
July 16, 2019 — “We call it the fog. It's like they’ve been awake for a few days straight,” said Col. (Dr.) Michael Richards, 59th Medical Specialty Squadron Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine section chief... MORE

Gennette Jones, a hyperbaric patient, wears an oxygen hood inside a hyperbaric chamber at Brooke Army Medical Center May 31. Typical hyperbaric patients suffer from post-radiation injuries, decompression sickness, arterial gas embolism, chronic wounds, diabetics that have end-organ disease and poor circulation, sensory hearing loss, and burns.

BAMC offers new treatment option for certain types of tumors
July 1, 2019 — The Brooke Army Medical Center Nuclear Medicine Department at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston now offers a new treatment for certain types of neuroendocrine tumors... MORE

Danielle Gonzales and Ric Torres, nuclear medicine technologists, demonstrate how the lutetium Lu 177 dotatate is administered to a patient in the Nuclear Medicine Department at Brooke Army Medical Center June 27. Nuclear medicine technologists are specially trained to administer radiopharmaceutical to patients.

Brooke Army Medical Center receives multiple environmental awards
June 24, 2019 — The staff at Brooke Army Medical Center received three Practice Greenhealth Environmental Awards at the CleanMed 2019 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, for their efforts in innovating sustainability and environmental best practices throughout the facility... MORE

Margarita Reed, a cook at Brooke Army Medical Center’s dining facility, cleans the flattop cooker following breakfast June 21. BAMC earned three Practice Greenhealth Environmental Awards at the CleanMed2019 conference, including its first Circle of Excellence-Chemicals Award, for its overall commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainability practices.