Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
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Contact Information
24 hour general information
DSN: 486-8106
CIV: 06371-86-8106
CIV from the US: 011-49-6371-86-8106
Information about wounded/ill service members (family only, please)
- Contact the unit's Rear Detachment which can provide you with information.
- Call the LRMC 24 hour number, above. Please be prepared to provide proof of identity.
- You may also email me (family members only, please) for general information. Patient privacy laws (HIPAA) are strictly observed by Landstuhl staff and no medical information is available through Soldiers' Angels Germany (about us).
See About Medical Evacuations to Germany for general information about the medevac process and videos of medevac flights.
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Ramstein AFB in Germany is a 5-hour medevac flight from Iraq. From here, service members are brought to nearby Landstuhl hospital.
The Landstuhl hospital is for service members with serious injuries or illness requiring surgery and hospitalization. Up to 50 soldiers are hospitalized at any given time and the average stay is under a week before being stabilized and sent on to a military hospital in the US or transitioned to the MTD outpatient barracks right next to the hospital.
The Medical Transient Detachment (MTD) houses outpatients with less serious injuries or illnesses not requiring hospitalization, or for those transitioned out of the hospital after treatment. There may be up to 100 outpatients whose average stay is 7-14 days before being flown home to the US or back to Iraq, Kuwait, or Afghanistan.
LOCATION
Landstuhl Post is a permanent U.S. Military installation located in the German State of Rheinland-Pfalz, 5K south of Ramstein Air Base. See Contact Information and Post Access.
POPULATION SERVED
LRMC is the largest American military hospital outside of the United States, and the only American tertiary hospital in Europe. LRMC provides primary and tertiary care, hospitalization, and treatment for more than 52,000 American military personnel and their families within the center’s boundaries. The center also provides specialized care for the more than 250,000 additional American military personnel and their families in the European Theater.
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
LRMC has played a major role in many world events. Today, LRMC provides medical treatment to casualties injured during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. LRMC treated the victims of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000. The hospital has also played a integral part in the repatriation of the three American soldiers who were taken prisoners of war in Yugoslavia in March 1999, and treated American and Kenyan victims of the U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi in August 1998. In 1994, it served as the treatment point for hundreds of Bosnian refugees injured in the Sarajevo marketplace bombing, as well as treating victims of the 1988 Ramstein Air Show disaster, and the victims of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. During Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990/1991, more than 4,000 service members from that region were treated at the facility, and more than 800 U.S. Military personnel deployed to Somalia were evacuated and treated here. Elements of the hospital went to Rwanda during the crisis there. LRMC is a major fixed medical facility assisting in the Balkan operations (Operations Joint Endeavor, Guard, Joint Forge), and the peacekeeping operation in Kosovo.
Contact Information
24 hour general information
DSN: 486-8106
CIV: 06371-86-8106
CIV from the US: 011-49-6371-86-8106
Information about wounded/ill service members (family only, please)
- Contact the unit's Rear Detachment which can provide you with information.
- Call the LRMC 24 hour number, above. Please be prepared to provide proof of identity.
- You may also email me (family members only, please) for general information. Patient privacy laws (HIPAA) are strictly observed by Landstuhl staff and no medical information is available through Soldiers' Angels Germany (about us).
See About Medical Evacuations to Germany for general information about the medevac process and videos of medevac flights.
Ramstein AFB in Germany is a 5-hour medevac flight from Iraq. From here, service members are brought to nearby Landstuhl hospital.
The Landstuhl hospital is for service members with serious injuries or illness requiring surgery and hospitalization. Up to 50 soldiers are hospitalized at any given time and the average stay is under a week before being stabilized and sent on to a military hospital in the US or transitioned to the MTD outpatient barracks right next to the hospital.
The Medical Transient Detachment (MTD) houses outpatients with less serious injuries or illnesses not requiring hospitalization, or for those transitioned out of the hospital after treatment. There may be up to 100 outpatients whose average stay is 7-14 days before being flown home to the US or back to Iraq, Kuwait, or Afghanistan.
LOCATION
Landstuhl Post is a permanent U.S. Military installation located in the German State of Rheinland-Pfalz, 5K south of Ramstein Air Base. See Contact Information and Post Access.
POPULATION SERVED
LRMC is the largest American military hospital outside of the United States, and the only American tertiary hospital in Europe. LRMC provides primary and tertiary care, hospitalization, and treatment for more than 52,000 American military personnel and their families within the center’s boundaries. The center also provides specialized care for the more than 250,000 additional American military personnel and their families in the European Theater.
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
LRMC has played a major role in many world events. Today, LRMC provides medical treatment to casualties injured during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. LRMC treated the victims of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000. The hospital has also played a integral part in the repatriation of the three American soldiers who were taken prisoners of war in Yugoslavia in March 1999, and treated American and Kenyan victims of the U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi in August 1998. In 1994, it served as the treatment point for hundreds of Bosnian refugees injured in the Sarajevo marketplace bombing, as well as treating victims of the 1988 Ramstein Air Show disaster, and the victims of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. During Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990/1991, more than 4,000 service members from that region were treated at the facility, and more than 800 U.S. Military personnel deployed to Somalia were evacuated and treated here. Elements of the hospital went to Rwanda during the crisis there. LRMC is a major fixed medical facility assisting in the Balkan operations (Operations Joint Endeavor, Guard, Joint Forge), and the peacekeeping operation in Kosovo.
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