Fort Bliss - William Beaumont Army Medical Center

The hospital is constructed such that 12 stories reach above the desert floor; an eight-level tower protrudes from a four-story base. The building's façade of cream-colored brick and sandblasted natural concrete blends with the Franklin Mountains located behind the hospital The base covers an area greater than two acres; the 12 levels contain more than a half-million square feet of floor space.

Although designed for 611 beds, by the early 1980s the hospital had a capacity of 463. The Omar N. Bradley building, an addition to the west-side of the main hospital, was opened in 1982. This facility provides an additional 200,000 square feet of clinical and administrative space. Today, the hospital has a bed capacity for more than 150 patients. However, during contingencies, the hospital can expand for 373 patients.

WBAMC is one of the largest buildings in El Paso with another 254,000 square feet of floor space for the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Center. Now, the WBAMC complex has more than one million square feet of floor space for patient care and administrative duties.

An average of 1,200 patients are seen daily. The medical center performs on average 4,159 laboratory procedures and fills over 2,166 pharmacy requests daily. WBAMC is one of two trauma centers in El Paso County. It treats between 10 and 15 percent of trauma cases in the area. Sixty percent of the trauma cases treated are military, and 40 percent of those are family members of active-duty military.

The Tertiary Health Care, Research, Graduate Medical Education Programs and affiliations with institutions such as Texas Tech University School of Medicine, University of Texas at El Paso School of Nursing, and El Paso Community College Nursing School provide the cornerstones for the medical center. Furthermore, WBAMC offers a broad range of programs in many medical disciplines. Presently, there are 70 physicians in training, 27 interns and 43 residents. There are also more than 100 officers and enlisted Soldiers training in other medical specialties on any given day. There are also opportunities for medical students throughout the nation to do rotations here at William Beaumont Army Medical Center.