The center is responsible for over a quarter of a million military beneficiaries around San Antonio and for about half of the city’s trauma mission, a level of coverage not seen anywhere else.
“From a military perspective, there is no other facility like BAMC. It’s the only hospital in the Department of Defense that’s also a level one trauma center, and that’s also integrated completely into the community where it sits,” said Col. Jason Bothwell, Chief Department of Emergency Medicine, BAMC.
BAMC serves 22 counties. Col. Bothell said that’s about 2.2 million patients that fall into the giant area that surrounds the Alamo City. Chief of trauma and surgical care, Timothy Nunez, said a 20 to 30-percent increase overall in volume.We have also seen an increase of a couple percentage points of our penetrating trauma, which is, you know, the violence that you see in the news every day,” said Nunez.
What makes BAMC even more unique, it has the only rooftop Heli-pad in the department of defense. Bothwell said about 15% of their casualties arrive by air, and it’s roughly two to three minutes of high-stakes work.
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