JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas  –   Brooke Army Medical Center provides emergent and rehabilitative services for San Antonio and the south Texas community to ensure patients receive safe, quality care.

LIFESAVING TRAUMA CARE

BAMC’s Level I Trauma Center is the only Level I Trauma Center in the Department of War. It serves San Antonio and the surrounding region, caring for more than 6,000 military and civilian trauma patients each year, including 750 burn patients, from an area that stretches across 22 counties in Southwest Texas encompassing more than 2.8 million people.

“For more than 28 years BAMC has been taking care of high acuity injured patients from the community,” said Dr. Timothy Nunez, chief of trauma and surgical critical care at BAMC. “Over 50,000 patients have been brought to BAMC for care of their injuries.”

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