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The '''Landstuhl Regional Medical Center''' ('''LRMC''') is an overseas ] operated by the ]. It is the largest American military hospital outside the ]. The hospital is located at Wilson Barracks in the ] town of ],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://home.army.mil/rheinland-pfalz/index.php/about/history |title=History |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz |publisher=] |access-date=April 27, 2021 |quote=Wilson Barracks (aka: Landstuhl or LRMC): Named after Cpl. Alfred L. Wilson (Sept. 18, 1919 – Nov. 8, 1944).}}</ref> and was the nearest treatment center for personnel wounded in the ]. It serves members of the ], military retirees, and their eligible family members. |
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The '''Landstuhl Regional Medical Center''' ('''LRMC''') is an overseas ] operated by the ]. It is the largest American military hospital outside the ]. The hospital is located at Wilson Barracks in the ] town of ],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://home.army.mil/rheinland-pfalz/index.php/about/history |title=History |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz |publisher=] |access-date=April 27, 2021 |quote=Wilson Barracks (aka: Landstuhl or LRMC): Named after Cpl. Alfred L. Wilson (Sept. 18, 1919 – Nov. 8, 1944).}}</ref> and was the nearest treatment center for personnel wounded in the ]. It serves members of the ], military retirees, and their eligible family members. |
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* {{cite news |last=Fichtner|first=Ullrich|title=A Visit to the US Military Hospital|work=]|date=2007-03-14}} |
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* {{cite news |last=Fichtner|first=Ullrich|title=A Visit to the US Military Hospital|work=]|date=2007-03-14}} |
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* {{cite news |last=Jones|first= Meg|url=http://pulitzercenter.org/articles/germany-us-hospital-landstuhl-organ-donations|title=A Soldier's Death Gives Life to Another Man|work=]|date=2011-04-24 |accessdate=2011-05-12}} |
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* {{cite news |last=Jones|first= Meg|url=http://pulitzercenter.org/articles/germany-us-hospital-landstuhl-organ-donations|title=A Soldier's Death Gives Life to Another Man|work=]|date=2011-04-24 |accessdate=2011-05-12}} |
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* {{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Kaserne Named in Honor of U.S. Army Aid Man |magazine=Medical Bulletin of the European Command |volume=9 |number=1 |publisher=Medical Division, ] |date=January 1952 |page=204}} |
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* {{cite news |last=Shanker|first=Thom|title=Landstulh Hospital to be Replaced but with What?|work=] |date=2012-06-10}} |
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* {{cite news |last=Shanker|first=Thom|title=Landstulh Hospital to be Replaced but with What?|work=] |date=2012-06-10}} |
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With America's gradual withdrawal from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the years, the number of U.S. military casualties have dwindled and the regional medical center was downgraded to a Level III trauma center in May 2014. The United States Navy disbanded its expeditionary medical unit that same year. In August 2021 LRMC was verified as a Level II trauma center.
Opened on March 9, 1953, LRMC was formerly known as the 2d General Hospital and the Landstuhl Army Medical Center (LAMC). In 1980, soldiers who were injured in Operation Eagle Claw were brought to LAMC. During the 1990s, United States Army Europe underwent a reorganization, and hospitals in Frankfurt, Berlin, Nuremberg, and other bases were gradually closed down, or were downsized to clinics. In 1993, a group of 288 United States Air Force personnel augmented the hospital. By 1997, it was the only U.S. medical center in Europe.
LRMC is one of the top hospitals for organ donations in its region in Europe. Roughly half of the American military personnel who died at the hospital from combat injuries from 2005 through 2010 were organ donors. That was the first year the United States Armed Forces allowed organs to be donated by military personnel who died at the hospital from wounds suffered in Iraq or Afghanistan. From 2005 through 2010, 34 donated a total of 142 organs, according to the organ transplant organization, Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation (Template:Lang-en).
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LRMC in October 2008
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