All eligible beneficiaries 12 & older can receive one of the available COVID-19 vaccines. The DOD now requires COVID-19 vaccines for all active duty service members and National Guard members. If you’re a service member and you’ve received a COVID-19 vaccine from a non-DOD provider, make sure to update your medical records. If you haven’t received your COVID vaccine yet, call the appointment line (06371-9464-5762) to schedule your vaccine.

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is closely monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak and diligently working with U.S. military and host nation officials. The health and well-being of all personnel is paramount.

TRICARE Open Season 2020 has closed. The next open season will take place in the fall of 2021. If you didn’t enroll or make a change to your TRICARE health plan during open season, you must wait until the next open season unless you have a TRICARE Qualifying Life Event (QLE).

U.S. Army Maj. Philip Goering, a family medicine physician, U.S. Army Health Clinic Wiesbaden, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, evaluates an Afghan evacuee seeking medical assistance as part of medical operations in support of Operation Allies Refuge at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 26. The medical operations are part of U.S. Armed Forces medical efforts in response to the Afghanistan evacuations at Ramstein Air Base, which has transformed itself into the logistical hub for the evacuation of people from Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Kimberly Byers-Lund (left), a family physician and Army reserve-component Soldier, assigned to U.S. Army Health Clinic Kaiserslauter, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, and U.S. Maj. Jesus Chaves, chief nursing officer, U.S. Army Health Clinic Baumholder, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, evaluate an Afghan evacuee child as part of a medical team supporting Operation Allies Refuge at Ramstein Air Base, Aug. 26. The medical team is part of U.S. Armed Forces medical efforts in response to the Afghanistan evacuations at Ramstein Air Base, which has transformed itself into the logistical hub for the evacuation of people from Afghanistan.

(From left) U.S. Air Force Maj. Kristin Blouin, neonatal nurse, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, and native of Tennessee Colony, Texas, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Lamaar Melvin, aerospace medical technician, Labor and Delivery, LRMC, and native of Newburgh, New York, were part of an obstetrics team which responded to an Afghan evacuee newborn delivery which occurred minutes after an aircraft landing, which transported the evacuee, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The team, part of U.S. Armed Forces medical efforts in response to the Afghanistan evacuations, is one of many 24/7 medical teams staged at Ramstein Air Base, which has transformed itself into the logistical hub for the evacuation of people from Afghanistan in less than a week.

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center recently became the only medical facility outside the United States verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons. Previously verified as a Level III Trauma Center, LRMC’s new designation reflects the medical center’s commitment toward maintaining a robust trauma program in compliance with 286 criteria focused on immediate and comprehensive care following trauma incidents.