Bob Ackley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Mimi Gallandt to Bob Ackley:

 MG>> It obviously depends on where you live, it isn't like that at Naval
 MG>> Regional Nedical Center San Diego.

 BA> It didn't used to be like that at the Erling Bergquist Regional Medical
 BA> Center at Offutt AFB, either.  But that Regional Medical Center is now
 BA> a walk-in clinic, no emergency room, no inpatient or surgery capability.
 BA> Limited other specialties as the AF is closing the various clinics within
 BA> the former hospital (the urologist retired and was not replaced, among
 BA> others).  Most of the staff there - physicians and nurses - and some techs
 BA> seem to be civilians rather than military - it used to be that the only
 BA> civilian
 BA> physicians working there were interns (mainly as a favor to the two Omaha
 BA> medical schools).  AFAIK it's a tossup whether the nearest military
 BA> hospital
 BA> is at Fort Riley (Topeka, KS) or Scott AFB (Belleville, Il), assuming
 BA> that both
 BA> of those bases still *have* military hospitals.

Malstrom in Great Falls, MT (is the correct abbreviation for an Air Force
base "AFB"?) has a tiny little clinic and won't see any patients
who aren't signed up (and paid) for Tricare. That clinic (while I was
there) isn't going to win any awards for medicine, either. :)

 BA> I note that the Navy once had large operations in the SF Bay area, but NAS
 BA> Alameda closed years if not decades ago, and the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital
 BA> (where I was born, BTW) was closed and sold off years ago.

That's true; Alameda has taken the land and dock facilities, Treasure
Island has been turned into a condo and touristy area. The Army still has
Ft Mason, but who knows how long that will last.

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