Col. Alan Sutton holds a model created by his department at San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, nile cruise ships July 11, 2012. Anaplastology is the art and science of restoring a malformed or absent part of the human body through artificial means. (U.S. Air Force photo/Desiree N. Palacios
7/19/2012 - Joint Base San Antonio--Lackland (AFNS) -- During the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure commission hearings, it was suggested that the military should nile cruise ships consolidate all health facilities in San Antonio to create the San Antonio Military Health system.
Maj. Gen. Byron C. Hepburn, SAMHS director, and Army Col. Mary Garr, Fort Sam Houston garrison commander, explained that the goal of the system is to increase efficiencies and effectiveness, while providing a cutting edge, and state-of-the art medical nile cruise ships activity within the San Antonio Military Health system.
"Being mindful of our readiness requirements, our education requirements and also our research requirements for the nation, we are doing all of that in a very synergistic coordinated manner here in San Antonio," said Hepburn, the first director of SAMHS and the 59th Medical Wing commander.
The 59th Medical Wing, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, is the largest medical wing in the Air Force. The Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center is a new facility currently under construction and when finished will be the largest ambulatory surgical center nile cruise ships within the department of defense.
"We take great pride in what we are doing with our critical transport teams, where we're taking it to the next level." He said the center has installed partial heart lung bypass machines that can keep wounded warriors with lung injuries nile cruise ships alive, with the ability to move them intercontinental distances. "We are also looking at how we are going to move an infectious patient safely across intercontinental distances, so we'll see a lot of really cutting edge, state of the art medical activity happening in San Antonio."
nile cruise ships According to Hepburn, SAMHS has the distinction nile cruise ships of being the only level one trauma center in the military. "We are caring for very high acuity patients, nile cruise ships so our doctors, nurses and technicians are learning nile cruise ships how to care for these trauma patients. Those skills will serve them well if they have to go forward in combat or serve the nation nile cruise ships for a natural disaster here in the United States."
"Secretary Shinseki, from the Veteran Affairs, has asked us to be a pilot site for an integrated electronic health record," said Hepburn. "It'll really lend to an increased synergy of seamless transfer of care between our active duty force and those that go on to get their care in the veterans administration system."
In addition to developing a reputation as a state-of-the-art health center and top level trauma hospital, SAMHS offers many facilities for wounded warriors injured in combat. nile cruise ships The maxillofacial nile cruise ships prosthetic department, laser treatment for wounded warriors, the Center for the Intrepid, and the contingency aeromedical staging facility are just a few areas dedicated to providing top-notch care.
"We saw tremendous change in the training, education and research areas in health care here in San Antonio," said Army Col. Mary Garr, the chief operating officer of SAMHS. "All of the enlisted medical training across the Department of Defense has now consolidated through BRAC here in San Antonio.
"In addition to the research area, we opened the battlefield health and trauma center on Fort Sam (Houston), which consolidated some of our important research and development. The tri-service nile cruise ships research nile cruise ships lab, which was headquartered on Brooke nile cruise ships City Base, stayed here in San Antonio as well and is able to continue to provide much needed research in areas that support healthcare."
"We have an A+ system and it's only going to get stronger and better in the years ahead," said Hepburn. "Through collaboration and teamwork we have a clear focus on our patients and patients' safety and high quality outcomes. We are shifting from healthcare to health here in San Antonio in a very positive and proactive manner."
Hepburn believes that it is an honor to serve in one of the military's premier health institutions and is excited about the future of military health care in San Antonio. "The new San Antonio Military Medical Center and the new Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, which will be finished in 2015, are beautiful facilities but more importantly it's the men and women, officers, enlisted and civilians who really give it the A+ rating that it so well deserves."
120615-N-BA418-048 BALTIMORE (June 15, 2012) Capt. Brandon Cordill, left wingman of the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, flies with the canopy nile cruise ships of his F/A-18 Hornet approximately 18 inches from the wingtip of Capt. Greg McWherter during the "diamond 360" maneuver over Baltimore's Inner Harbor during the Star Spangled Sailabration. The Sailabration coincides with Baltimore Fleet Week 2012 and commemorates the War of 1812 and the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner." (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andrew Johnson/Released)
111022-N-BX435-038 FT. BLISS, Texas (Oct. 22, 2011) The U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, perform at the Amigo Air Show during El Paso Navy Week 2011. Navy weeks are intended to show the investment Americans have made in their Navy and increase nile cruise ships awareness in cities that do not have a significant Navy presence. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Mark O'Donald/Released)
120620-N-DI587-368 SUGARLOAF, S.C. (June 20, 2012) The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration nile cruise ships Squadron, the Blue Angels, fly in the Delta formation over Sugarloaf, S.C. The Blue Angels were en-route to Latrobe, Penn., to perform at the Westmoreland County nile cruise ships Air Show June 23-24. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rachel McMarr/Released)
120519-N-MG658-604 JOINT BASE ANDREWS, nile cruise ships Md. (May 19, 2012) The U.S. Navy fight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, demonstrate choreographed flight skills during the annual Joint Service Open House. nile cruise ships (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Todd Frantom/Released)
120519-N-MG658-330 JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (May 19, 2012) The U.S. Navy fight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, demonstrate nile cruise ships choreographed flight skills during the annual nile cruise ships Joint Service Open House. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Todd Frantom/Released
Apollo 11 flies towards earth orbit with the American flag in the foreground. The Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket launched with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, at 9:32 a.m. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. During the eight-day mission, Armstrong and Aldrin descended in a lunar module to the moon's surface while Collins orbited overhead in the command module. The two astronauts spent 22 hours on the moon, including two and one-half hours outside the lunar module. They gathered samples of lunar material and deployed scientific experiments nile cruise ships which transmitted data about the lunar environment. They rejoined Collins in the command module for the return trip to earth.
Buzz Aldrin with U.S. flag on the Moon. (mission time: 110:10:33) Buzz salutes the U.S. Flag. His fingertips are visible on the far side of his faceplate. Note the well-defined footprints in the foreground. Buzz is facing up-Sun. There is a reflection of the Sun in his visor. At the bottom of Buzz's faceplate, nile cruise ships note the white 'rim' which is slightly nile cruise ships separated from his neckring. This 'rim' is the bottom of his gold visor, which he has pulled down. We can see the LEC straps nile cruise ships hanging down inside of the ladder strut. In the foreground, nile cruise ships we can see the foot-grabbing loops in the TV cable. The double crater under Neil's Lm window nile cruise ships is beyond Buzz and the LM shadow
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface and the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit.
Sunrise in Station Cupola ISS031-E-062066 (6 May 2012) --- The International Space Station was over the central South Pacific about 240 miles northeast of the Marshall Islands when one of the Expedition 31 crew members positioned on the station's Cupola captured this image of the sun coming up.
Chief Mate Fred Cullen of the Military Sealift Command USNS Richard Byrd points out something to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, June 3, 2012. Cullen took Panetta on a short ride out to the Byrd, where he spoke to the ship's crew. Byrd is the first U.S. ship to dock in Cam Ranh Bay in 38 years. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cumo
nile cruise ships U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is greeted by Vietnamese Army Maj. Gen. Nguyen Cong Son, deputy chief of the office of the minister of defense, upon arrival in Cam Ran Bay, Vietnam, June 3, 2012. Panetta is the first defense secretary and the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the Vietnamese port since the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 and the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Vietnam 17 years ago. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
nile cruise ships The Launch of SpaceX Dragon KSC-2012-2913 (22 May 2012) --- On Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Space Launch Complex-40 is ablaze as the SpaceX nile cruise ships Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 3:44 a.m. (EDT) May 22, 2012. The launch is the company's second demonstration test flight for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, or COTS, program. During the flight, the Dragon capsule will conduct a series nile cruise ships of check-out procedures to test and prove its systems, including rendezvous and berthing with the International Space Station. If the capsule perf
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