The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC), also known as Landstuhl Hospital, is a

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medical center, located in the

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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 ...

, near

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. 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

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; serving U.S. forces, their dependents, and retirees.

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 were brought to LAMC. During the 1990s,

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underwent a reorganization, and hospitals in

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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 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:

References

External links

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Army Fisher House

Landstuhl Post Library

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History

Organ donation

Decorations

See also

References

Further reading

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