Topic: Blanchfield Army Community Hospital

Warrior Games regional trials for Soldiers and veterans at Fort Campbell April 14th-17th

April 12, 2014 |

Fort Campbell hosts Georgia Soldiers

Fort Campbell, KY – The Fort Campbell Warrior Transition Battalion is hosting regional Warrior Games trials April 14th to 17th at Fort Campbell, KY.

These preliminary trials will select active duty and veteran athletes to compete for a spot on the 40-person Army team in the 2014 Warrior Games at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs this October.

Soldiers and staff from the Fort Campbell, KY. Warrior Transition Battalion prepare to take off during the cycling trial April 1, 2014 for the upcoming Warrior Games. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Eric Lieber/RELEASED)

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Fort Campbell Center to treat Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) nears completion

March 28, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY -The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund announced today that the construction of the third in a series of nine (NICoE) Satellite Centers has reached a new milestone with a watertight roof and 90% of plumbing and electric work complete.

When finished, the center, named Intrepid Spirit, will provide the most advanced diagnosis and treatment protocols for wounded, injured and ill military heroes while creating effective programs for rehabilitation and recovery. The centers are designed to focus on injuries of the brain, most notably Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress (PTS), the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in our wounded military troops.

The National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) Satellite Centers at Fort Campbell (National Intrepid Center of Excellence)

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BACH announces Fort Campbell TRICARE Service Center to end walk-in admin service

March 11, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – Keeping up with the rapidly increasing number of TRICARE beneficiaries who most often turn to a laptop or cell phone when they have questions, walk-in service at Fort Campbell’s TRICARE Service Center will no longer be available as of April 1st. Find out more at www.tricare.mil/TSC .

TRICARE beneficiaries seen in the Fort Campbell local network and patients at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital will still have a wide variety of secure, electronic customer service options available through www.tricare.mil . The new “I want to …” feature puts everything beneficiaries want to do online right on the front page of www.tricare.mil. «Read the rest of this article»

Fort Campbell updates for Wednesday March 5th

March 4, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – This just in: Tomorrow (Mar. 5), Fort Campbell is open for limited operations.

Emergency essential personnel report at normal time. All other personnel are authorized a 2-hour delay from normal report time.

BCT/CAB/BDE commanders will make the determination on mission essential leaders and Soldiers to report for selected activities (MTTs, CS13/14, deployment activities). The Sabalauski Air Assault School will open at normal time and conduct scheduled training.

DODEA Schools remain closed, all CDC’s will be open. (RNJ)

Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital Open for Appointments on Tuesday

March 3, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – Although Fort Campbell and Blanchfield Army Community Hospital are operating with mission essential personnel only tomorrow, Tuesday March 4; Blanchfield Army Community Hospital will continue to honor patient appointments at their scheduled time. Patients with scheduled appointments may experience delays due to mission essential only personnel working and other possible staff shortages due to hazardous road conditions.

Hospital leadership encourages patients to use their best judgment when traveling to appointments in inclement weather. «Read the rest of this article»

Fort Campbell Weather Related Closings and Updates for Tuesday

March 3, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – Here is the latest: Fort Campbell will operate at mission essential personnel levels tomorrow, March 4.

Directors will notify their employees of their mission requirements. Civilians will be given an additional two hours to report to work.

Soldiers will be on a DONSA. CDC’s will be at mission essential personnel levels. Fort Campbell Schools and the Austin Peay State University extension, will remain closed. The Sabalauski Air Assault School will be posting which classes will report and when. «Read the rest of this article»

Fort Campbell post closed Monday, March 3rd due to weather

March 2, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – Due to the declining weather, Fort Campbell activities will be reduced to Life, Health, Safety requirements for March 3rd,  2014.

BACH will be posting information for reduced services and the impact to their activities.

Commanders and Directors will be informing their personnel on who is required in their units to perform life, health, safety missions.

Everyone should limit their travel on the roads as we expect travel to be dangerous throughout tonight and the day of March 3rd, 2014.

Fort Campbell’s 1st Brigade Combat Team soldiers get new hearing protection

February 25, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – The U.S. Army recently began issuing a new hearing device called Tactical Communications and Protective System to units.

The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), is the first brigade in the Army to receive the new TCAPS device, according to Maj. Mia P. Bruner, the assistant product manager for TCAPS with product manager for Soldier Warrior.

Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), stand in line to be fitted with the new Tactical Communications and Protective System hearing device Feb. 21 at the Kinnard Mission Training Complex here. The TCAPS device is designed to provide soldiers with active hearing protection while allowing them to maintain situational awareness on the battlefield. (Sgt. Jon Heinrich/U.S. Army)

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Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital honors patients during Recognition Month

February 14, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – With the help of volunteers, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital offered patients free chair massages, kid’s face painting as well as weight management and healthy eating classes the first week of February in honor of National Patient Recognition Month.

Eight local massage students, shadowed by their instructor, volunteered to offer their new massage therapy skills to Fort Campbell Soldiers, Retirees and their Families February 6th.

Massage therapy students from Clarksville, Tenn. provide free stress-relieving chair massages to patients at Fort Campbell, Ky. in Blanchfield Army Community Hospital Feb. 6, 2014 in honor of Patient Recognition Month. (U.S. Army photo by Laura Boyd/RELEASED)

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Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (BACH) to observe Martin Luther King Jr. birthday

January 17, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – In honor of the national observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (BACH) personnel will observe the federal holiday Monday, January 20th, therefore all clinics and pharmacies will be closed.

Hospital staff members will continue to provide acute and emergency medical care 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the Emergency Center and Inpatient Services.

All BACH medical services will remain open Friday, January 17th and reopen normal hours Tuesday, January 21st.

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