Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

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Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (originally known as the Landstuhl Army Medical Center) was established on October 15, 1951. Completion of the 1,000-bed Army General Hospital building occurred on April 7, 1953. In 1980, soldiers who were injured in Operation Eagle Claw were brought to the hospital. During the 1990s, U.S. Army Europe underwent a major reorganization, and U.S. hospitals in Frankfurt, Berlin, Nuremberg, and other bases were gradually closed down, or were downsized to clinics. In 1993, a group of 288 U.S. Air Force Medical Service personnel augmented the hospital.{{cite book|last=Sarnecky|first=Mary T.|title=A contemporary history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps|date=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMhA82JtgHUC|pages=343–4|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=9780160869136}} As of June 2024, the 86th Medical Squadron continues to supports U.S. Army operations at LRMC.{{Cite web |title=86th Medical Group - Ramstein Air Base > About Us |url=https://ramstein.tricare.mil/About-Us |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=ramstein.tricare.mil}}{{Cite web |title=86 MDS celebrates 30 years of partnership with LRMC |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/news/442965/86-mds-celebrates-30-years-partnership-with-lrmc |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=DVIDS |language=en}} By 2013, it was the only American military hospital left in Europe.{{cite news |last=Millham |first=Matthew |date=July 1, 2013 |title=Nachrichten Kaserne latest US facility in Heidelberg to close |url=https://www.stripes.com/nachrichten-kaserne-latest-us-facility-in-heidelberg-to-close-1.228397 |url-access=limited |work=Stars and Stripes |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=December 29, 2022}}

During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine from 2022, the hospital treated tens of wounded American volunteer veterans who participated in the fighting against Russia.{{cite news |last1=Philipps |first1=Dave |last2=Schmitt |first2=Eric |title=U.S. Army Hospital in Germany Is Treating Americans Hurt Fighting in Ukraine |work=The New York Times |date=September 23, 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/us-soldiers-ukraine-hospital-germany.html |access-date=24 September 2023 |agency=New York Times}}

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 hospital allowed organs to be donated by military personnel who died there from wounds suffered in Iraq or Afghanistan. From 2005 to 2010, 34 donated a total of 142 organs, according to the organization German Organ Transplantation Foundation (Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation).{{cite news |last=Jones|first= Meg|url=https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/soldiers-death-gives-life-another-man|title=A Soldier's Death Gives Life to Another Man|work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=23 April 2011|accessdate=10 September 2023}}

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center has been awarded the following unit decorations:{{Citation|author=|title=U.S. Army Human Resources Command Permanent Order 097-04|url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2014/097-04_20140407_HRCMD.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907205129/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2014/097-04_20140407_HRCMD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 7, 2015|date=7 April 2014}}{{Citation|author=|title=U.S. Army Human Resources Command Permanent Order 155-09 (Corrected Copy)|url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2013/155-09_20130604_HRCMD_CC.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908025842/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2013/155-09_20130604_HRCMD_CC.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 8, 2015|date=4 June 2013}}

• VFW Armed Forces Award, July 23, 2012{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Chuck |date=August 17, 2012 |title=LRMC receives 2012 VFW Armed Forces Award |url=https://www.kaiserslauternamerican.com/lrmc-receives-2012-vfw-armed-forces-award/ |work=The Kaiserslautern American |access-date=December 29, 2022}}{{cite report |author=Veterans of foreign Wars of the United States |author-link=Veterans of Foreign Wars |date=2013 |title=Proceedings of the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of foreign Wars of the United States |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-113hdoc35/pdf/CDOC-113hdoc35.pdf |location=Washington |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=18–19 |access-date=December 29, 2022}}

• LeVar Burton (born 1957), actor, director and television host
• Jeffery Taubenberger (born 1961), virologist
• Shawn Bradley (born 1972), German-American former professional basketball player
• David Rouzer (born 1972), American Republican politician
• Rob Thomas (born 1972), American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• Richard McElreath (born 1973), American professor of anthropology
• Heather De Lisle (born 1976), American television presenter
• Josh Wicks (born 1983), American soccer player
• John Anthony Castro (born 1986), American Republican politician

==See also==

• Kaiserslautern Military Community
• List of United States Army installations in Germany

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• {{cite news |last=Fichtner|first=Ullrich|title=A Visit to the US Military Hospital at Landstuhl: The German Front in the Iraq War |work=Der Spiegel|date=14 March 2007|url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-visit-to-the-us-military-hospital-at-landstuhl-the-german-front-in-the-iraq-war-a-471654.html}}
• {{cite magazine|title=Kaserne Named in Honor of U.S. Army Aid Man|magazine=Medical Bulletin of the European Command |volume=9 |number=5 |publisher=Medical Division, European Command |date=5 May 1952 |page=204|oclc=709889000}}
• {{cite news|last=Reidel|first=Alexander|date=20 April 2023|title=US military hospital to replace 70-year-old Landstuhl is on track for 2027, officials say|url=https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2023-04-20/landstuhl-hospital-70-year-legacy-construction-progress-9852236.html|url-access=limited|work=Stars and Stripes|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=10 September 2023}}
• {{cite news |last=Shanker|first=Thom|title=Pentagon and Congress Argue Over Hospital for Troops|work=The New York Times |date=10 June 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/world/europe/landstuhl-hospital-to-be-replaced-but-with-what.html|access-date=10 September 2023}}

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• {{official website}}
• [https://fisherhouse.org/programs/houses/current-houses/germany-landstuhl-regional-medical-center-i-ii-army/ Army Fisher House at Landstuhl ]
• [https://kaiserslautern.armymwr.com/programs/rheinland-pfalz-library Landstuhl Army Library]
• [https://kaiserslautern.uso.org/warrior-center USO Warrior Center]

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