Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
| Landstuhl Regional Medical Center | |
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| place | Landstuhl |
| state | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 24 '20 " N , 7 ° 33' 36" E |
| Commander | Col. Timothy L. Hudson |
| beds | 100 beds, 218 medical transient detachment beds |
| Employee | 3,300 (March 2013) |
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| founding | March 9, 1953 |
| Website | rhce.amedd.army.mil/landstuhl/ |
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The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) is the largest military hospital of the US Army outside the United States with around 3,300 employees .
geography
The LRMC is located on the Kirchberg, a district of the city of Landstuhl near Kaiserslautern .
assignment
The LRMC provides the first pacified medical care for injured soldiers from Iraq or Afghanistan who are flown to nearby Ramstein Air Base . After a short stay, they will be relocated if medically justifiable, e.g. B. to the Walter Reed Military Hospital in the United States. It also ensures medical care for the Kaiserslautern Military Community .
In the American military rescue chain, Landstuhl was until 2014 a "Level 4 Center" and a place of maximum trauma care, to which patients from "Level 3 - Combat Support Hospitals" are flown as quickly as possible by CCAT teams in order to stabilize them there with intensive care . Furthermore, more complex and definitive interventions in the context of trauma surgery , thoracic , abdominal , neurosurgery and vascular surgery can be carried out, as can angiographic and other radiologically invasive procedures. The transfer to the United States in "Level 5" centers usually takes place only after stabilization and for the implementation of non-urgent procedures and for rehabilitation . In a prospective study from 2011 it was found that within one year 87 severely injured patients from Iraq were flown from the Joint Base Balad to Landstuhl, 80% of whom were intubated , and in 13% intracranial pressure monitoring was necessary due to a traumatic brain injury . During the flight, 9% received blood transfusions . The stringent organization made it possible to reduce the time from injury to transfer to the USA to 3-4 days and the mortality rate considerably.
Due to the decreasing number of seriously injured people in Afghanistan and Iraq, Landstuhl was downgraded to a Level III center in 2014.
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In March 2013, around 3,300 employees, including more than 1,100 soldiers, worked at the LRMC. The hospital offers 149 permanent beds as well as a further 218 medical transient detachment beds, which are mainly used as transit stations and for emergencies. Between September 2001 and the end of 2009, around 60,000 patients were treated at the LRMC.
history
In 1938, the construction of an Adolf Hitler School , a Nazi reading school for the Hitler Youth, began on what is now the LRMC .
On March 19, 1945, Landstuhl and the school were occupied by US troops. The US Army took over the Old Hospital in Hauptstrasse in Landstuhl from November 1951 , while planning for a 1,000-bed military hospital on the site of the former Adolf Hitler School began. On March 9, 1953, the first 375 patients were transferred to the unfinished facility, which a few weeks later - on April 5 - was inaugurated as the 320th General Hospital . A year later it was renamed the 2nd General Hospital . During the following decades the hospital was modernized several times and the number of beds reduced. After the Ramstein flight conference on August 28, 1988, 500 slightly injured people were treated at the LRMC. In 1994 the 2nd General Hospital was renamed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center . It is currently headed by Col. John M. Cho.
Future of the LRMC
In January 2010, it was announced that the US military was considering closing what is now the hospital and moving it to another location. Preferred was an area directly adjacent to the Ramstein Air Base in a north-easterly direction, which was used as an ammunition store as a branch of the Miesau Army Depot until it was closed . It is hoped that the relocation of the hospital to this area will provide a better connection to the air base and thus a more gentle transport of the wounded who have flown in from the operational areas. The grounds of the LRMC will continue to be used by the US military.
On October 24, 2014, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the 780 million euro building project took place on the site of the former ammunition storage facility in Weilerbach . The Federal Republic of Germany is contributing 130 million euros. The USA is providing a further twelve million euros for measures to compensate for the encroachment on nature and the landscape. With initially 68 beds, 120 examination and treatment rooms and nine operating theaters, the new building will replace both the LRMC and the Ramstein Air Base Clinic from 2024.
Organ donation
The LRMC is one of the most important organ donation hospitals in its region in the EU. About half of the soldiers who died in Landstuhl from combat injuries between 2005 and 2010 were organ donors. From 2005 to 2010, 34 American military personnel who died in Landstuhl donated a total of 142 organs, according to the German Organ Transplantation Foundation . In 2010, 10 of the 12 American soldiers who died at the LRMC donated 45 organs.
Trivia
In the 7th season of the US series Grey's Anatomy , Landstuhl is named as the new job for doctor Teddy Altmann.
place of birth
The following people known in Germany were born there:
- LeVar Burton (actor)
- Rob Thomas (musician)
- Shawn Bradley (German national basketball player)
- Heather De Lisle (German-American journalist and presenter)
See also
literature
- Florian Klenk : Iraq War: The Day After . In: The time . No. 17, April 19, 2007
Web links
- Official website (English)
- "Most of those who come back are broken" - Interview with Astrid Schult about her documentary The Inner War (2009) about the US military hospital in Landstuhl
Footnotes
- ^ US Army Medicine Europe: Col. Timothy L. Hudson, Commander Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ↑ a b c LRMC: Fact Sheet - LRMC Mission ( Memento from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). As of March 2013 (PDF; 33 kB) (no longer available online)
- ↑ Robert L. Sheridan, Peter R. Shumaker, David R. King, Cameron D. Wright, Kamal MF Itani, Leopoldo C. Cancio: Case 15-2014: A man in the military who was injured by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan New England Journal of Medicine 2014, Volume 370, Issue 20 of May 15, 2014, pages 1931-1940, [DOI: 10.1056 / NEJMcpc13100008]
- ↑ a b LRMC: Fact Sheet - History of LRMC ( Memento from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). As of June 2009 (PDF; 28 kB) (no longer available online)
- ↑ Detlef Esslinger: US military hospital in Landstuhl - transshipment point for severe wounds . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 13, 2005
- ↑ Mark Abramson, Marcus Klöckner: US military meet with German politicians to talk about a possible relocation of the US hospital in Landstuhl. In: Airmail - peace policy messages from the US military region Kaiserslautern / Ramstein. January 23, 2010 ( PDF; 217 kB )
- ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from MPs Paul Schäfer (Cologne), Christine Buchholz, Annette Groth, other MPs and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group. In: Drucksache 17/7716. German Bundestag, November 28, 2011, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
- ^ Ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony for US Hospital Weilerbach , Federal Building Office Rhineland-Palatinate, October 24, 2014. Accessed December 30, 2014.
- ↑ Gianna Niewel: The Billion thing . Even under Barack Obama, the USA approved the construction of its military clinic in Ramstein, Rhineland-Palatinate. Budget: $ 990 million. About a quiet but spectacular project - and its transatlantic significance. In: Süddeutsche . April 4, 2017, p. 3 .
- ↑ A Soldier's Death Gives Life to Another Man . In: Pulitzer Center . April 23, 2011 ( pulitzercenter.org [accessed July 9, 2017]).
- ↑ DSO: Review of the annual conference of the Central Region in Saarbrücken. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ^ Grey's Anatomy Wiki - Teddy Altman. Accessed July 30, 2020 .