Far from ordinary, the ACC is not a typical bland, boxy governmental building. Sporting an aviation-inspired design, the building layout resembles jets flying in formation from above. The ACC serves as the primary Air Force medical training center and provides full-service outpatient care to military veterans, active military and their families.
Key features of the ACC include: At three stories, the facility boasts a total of seven gardens between the interior and rooftop, a chapel, a full-height concourse entrance and many other architectural features that make the building not only functional, but also aesthetically pleasing for patients and visitors.
A merging of styles that blends the regional character of central Texas with the high-tech expression of the Armed Forces is reflected in the design through masonry, bronze and metal.
Interior finishes are a mix of bronze metal accents and include a neutral palette, while the exterior finishes — designed and built with anti-terrorism security measures — are sleek, shiny and bold. To establish a world class medical outpatient program, evidence-based design principles, best practice solutions and the expression of sustainable design were incorporated.
These efforts included creating a patient-and family-centered healing environment that is functionally efficient and flexible, and intuitively navigable. Access to natural light, views to nature, intuitive wayfinding, enhanced sustainability through energy reduction and modular design of clinics for future flexibility. In fact, as early as January , patients from what was then known as the th Station Medical Squadron were sending some of their patients to be seen at BAMC.
The hospital as people know it today came about because of the Korean Conflict. With many soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines returning from the conflict needing medical attention, plans were drawn up to construct a new and larger medical facility which opened in James Humphreys Jr.
Wilford F. Such facilities would be needed through the years as Wilford Hall began seeing patients on air evacuation flights from conflicts all over the world.
Operation Just Cause in Panama, in particular, gave the Air Force and Army a chance to show their ability to work together to provide the best in patient care. One of them was a device called ECMO — extracorporeal membrane oxygenator, a type of portable heart-lung bypass machine for newborns that Wilford Hall pioneered in , saving a baby dying of respiratory failure.
ECMO now is used for adults as well. Getting people into the new surgical center, which performs outpatient procedures, was something of a squeeze and not everybody fit. It has a vastly different look. At three stories, its waiting rooms face a glass wall and open-air atrium that allows sunlight to pour in. Staff, patients and visitors can sit in a long, open commons area, for lunch and conversation, the smell of hot food wafting through the air.
Upstairs, on the second floor, in a room called the Gateway Innovation Center, hospital workers sat in overstuffed chairs for a nine-day class to introduce them to a new way of caring for their patients. If smaller, the center is different and perhaps better.
Most of the transfer of offices, staffs and equipment to the surgical center have been going on over the summer. The last of the babies born at Wilford Hall was delivered Aug. The surgical center is in line with an ongoing nationwide trend toward more day-side procedures with stays of only hours. On a recent day, retired Army National Guard field artillery officer Jim Cunningham was at the center to be treated for precancerous cells on his face, a byproduct of spending years in the field with no skin protection.
In time, after the old hospital is imploded or demolished next year, the land it sits on will become a park designed to help patients relax. The ghosts of Wilford Hall will fade, replaced by a new way of practicing medicine. Kyle Kelley looks up at President George H. Kelley, 20, received fragment wounds in his lower back on Dec.
He is from Santee, Calif. The building is about to be replaced as the 59th Medical Wing wraps up a month long relocation effort into new clinics and services at the adjacent facility. The old Wilford Hall Medical Center is about to be replaced as the 59th Medical Wing wraps up a month long relocation effort into new clinics and services at the adjacent facility, the new Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center.
The old Wilford Hall Medical Center is about to be replaced as the 59th Medical Wing wraps up a month long relocation effort into new clinics and services at the adjacent facility. The old hospital is about to be replaced as the 59th Medical Wing wraps up a month long relocation effort into new clinics and services at the adjacent facility.
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