Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
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- Hematology / Oncology
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Rheumatology
- Trauma Medicine ( burns)
- Neurosurgery
- Nuclear Medicine
- Drug therapy
- Neonatology ( Intensive Care Unit )
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center ( LRMC ) has approximately 3,300 employees, the largest hospital in the U.S. Army outside the United States.
Geography
The LRMC is located on the Kirchberg, a hamlet in the town of Landstuhl near Kaiserslautern.
Mission and staff
The LRMC offers the first medical care befriedetem area for wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, which are flown to nearby Ramstein Air Base. After a short stay they are, if medically acceptable, further postponed, such as the Walter Reed military hospital in the United States. In addition, it ensures medical care for the Kaiserslautern Military Community.
In LRMC 2850 employees, including more than 1,100 soldiers to work. The hospital has 149 fixed beds, and other Medical Transient Detachment 218 beds, which are mainly to be used as a way station as well as for emergencies. From September 2001 to the end of 2009, approximately 60,000 patients were treated at LRMC.
History
In 1938 began on the present site of the LRMC of the construction of a Adolf Hitler School, an elite Nazi school of the Hitler Youth.
On March 19, 1945 Country Chair and the School of American troops were occupied. The U.S. Army took over in November 1951, the old hospital in the main street in Landstuhl, while at the same time began planning for a 1,000-bed military hospital on the grounds of the former Adolf Hitler School. On March 9, 1953, the first 375 patients were moved into the unfinished facility, then a few weeks later - was inaugurated as the 320th General Hospital - on April 5. A year later it was renamed the 2nd General Hospital. During the following decades, the hospital has been modernized several times and reduces the number of beds. After the disaster at Ramstein airshow on August 28, 1988 500 minor injuries were treated at LRMC. In 1994, the 2nd General Hospital was renamed in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. It is currently headed by Colonel John M. Cho.
Future of LRMC
In January 2010 it was announced that will be discussed by the U.S. military closure of the local hospital and a relocation to another site.
They preferred this is located right next to the northeast at the Ramstein Air Base area, which Army Depot was used as a munitions store until its closure as a branch of Miesau. From the shift of the hospital on this site promises a better connection to the air base and thus a more gentle transport of the flown in from the areas of operation wounded.
Place of birth
Known in Germany people were born there:
- LeVar Burton (Actor)
- Rob Thomas (musician )
- Shawn Bradley ( German basketball national team )
- Heather De Lisle ( German - American journalist and presenter )