Topic: Blanchfield Army Community Hospital

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.

Clarksville Police report multiple car crash on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard near Dunbar Cave Road

January 8, 2014 |

Clarksville, TN – On Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 at 4:06pm, the Clarksville Police Department responded to a crash at Wilma Rudolph Boulevard (US-79), 400 Feet North of Dunbar Cave Road.

A 2002 Suzuki Esteem, driven by Tanquanae S. Blacknall, left a business parking lot, at 1820 Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, attempting to turn North onto Wilma Rudolph Boulevard and struck a 2011 Lincoln MKZ, driven by Frank Maurice Perry. «Read the rest of this article»

Flu on the rise, vaccine still available at Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital

January 8, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – The Centers for Disease Control has reported an increase of flu-like symptoms in Tennessee and officials expect the numbers to rise in coming weeks.

“The best ways to prevent getting and spreading the flu is to get vaccinated and follow preventive actions, like washing your hands often with soap and water or hand sanitizer,” said Dr. Samuel Peik, chief of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital. «Read the rest of this article»

Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital delivers First Baby of 2014 in the Clarksville area

January 3, 2014 |

Fort Campbell, KY – Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (BACH) is proud to announce the first baby born in 2014 throughout the Clarksville, Tennessee area, Maya Vasquez.

Maya is not only the first baby of the new year, but also the first child of Leticia Vasquez and her husband Louis.

Maya Vasquez rests at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital on Fort Campbell, KY. (U.S. Army photo by Stacy Rzepka/RELEASED)

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