The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC), also known as Landstuhl Hospital, is a
U.S. Army
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medical center, located in the
German
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town of
Landstuhl
Landstuhl () is a town in the Kaiserslautern district of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is the seat of ''Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl'', a kind of "collective municipality." Landstuhl is situated on the north-west edge of the Palatinate F ...
, near
Ramstein Air Base
Ramstein Air Base or Ramstein AB is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and also ...
. The installation is an amalgamation of Marceau Kaserne (german: Infanterie-Kaserne) and Wilson Barracks (''Kirchberg-Kaserne''), which were merged on October 15, 1951.
It is the largest American hospital outside the
continental United States
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; serving U.S. forces, their
dependent
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s, and
retiree
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s.
History
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center was established on October 15, 1951.
Completion of the general hospital building occured on April 7, 1953. In 1980, soldiers who were injured in
Operation Eagle Claw
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were brought to LAMC. During the 1990s,
U.S. Army Europe
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underwent a reorganization, and hospitals in
Frankfurt
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,
Berlin
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,
Nuremberg
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, and other bases were gradually closed down, or were downsized to clinics. In 1993, a group of 288
U.S. Air Force
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personnel augmented the hospital. By 1997, it was the only American military hospital left in Europe.
Organ donation
LRMC is one of the top hospitals for organ donations in its region in Europe. Roughly half of the American military personnel who died at the hospital from combat injuries from 2005 through 2010 were organ donors. That was the first year the U.S. Armed Forces allowed organs to be donated by military personnel who died at the hospital from wounds suffered in Iraq or Afghanistan. From 2005 through 2010, 34 donated a total of 142 organs, according to the organization German Organ Transplantation Foundation (''Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation'').
Decorations
The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center has been awarded the following
unit decorations:
See also
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Kaiserslautern Military Community
Kaiserslautern Military Community is a community of Americans living in and around Kaiserslautern, Germany, supporting United States Armed Forces and NATO installations, such as the Ramstein Air Base, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Kapaun Ai ...
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U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center – Europe
The United States Army Medical Materiel Center-Europe (USAMMCE), a subordinate unit of the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland, serves as the Defense L ...
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External links
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1951 establishments in West Germany
Buildings and structures in Landstuhl
Hospital buildings completed in 1953
Hospitals in Germany
Hospitals of the United States Army
Medical and health organisations based in Rhineland-Palatinate
Military installations established in 1951
Trauma centers
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