General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital (GLWACH) is a 472,600 square-foot, full-range military treatment facility serving 34,000 beneficiaries within a 40-mile radius of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. It is the only full-service hospital located between Lebanon, Mo., and Rolla, Mo., and has network partnerships with Phelps County Regional Medical Center, Rolla, MO; University of Missouri Hospital, Columbia, MO; Harry S. Truman Memorial VA Hospital, Columbia, MO; St. Mary’s Health Center, Jefferson City, MO; St. John’s Hospital, Lebanon, MO; Lake Regional Health System, Osage Beach, MO; and Texas County Memorial Hospital, Houston, MO.

GLWACH is accredited by the Joint Commission, the College of American Pathologists, and American College of Radiology, the American Association of Blood Banking, The Food and Drug Administration, and is a member of the American Hospital and Missouri Hospital Associations.

The hospital is a 65-inpatient-bed facility offering a wide range of medical services to include Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Podiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Audiology, Otolaryngology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work, Neurology and Substance Abuse. In addition, Radiology provides a full range of services to include X-ray, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound, Mammography, and Computed Tomography (CT scan). The Laboratory also provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient services.

GLWACH’s Main Outpatient Pharmacy is open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Refill and Satellite pharmacies are open
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday-Wednesday and Friday; 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thursday. The new PX Branch Pharmacy is open
8 a.m. – 6 p.m., Monday – Friday.

GLWACH is part of the Western Regional Medical Command headquartered at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

HISTORY: The original United States Army Hospital built at Fort Leonard Wood, a cantonment style hospital comprising of more than 2,000 beds, was constructed in 1941. The hospital was built to support Fort Leonard Wood, constructed as a result of the Army Expansion Program of 1940.

Full operation in the old cantonment facility continued until Aug. 16, 1965, when services began in a new facility. In 1974, post officials broke ground for a 180-bed nursing tower and clinic addition. Completed in 1977, the new addition more than doubled the space previously allocated for outpatient clinics and raised the inpatient capacity to approximately 500 beds.

The present facility, a six-story structure containing 472,600 square feet of clinic and ward space, provides inpatient and outpatient care to more than 34,000 beneficiaries and is staffed by more than 1,000 physicians, nursing and administrative professionals.

On an average day at GLWACH, there are:

• 1,156 outpatient clinic visits
• 181 Consolidated Troop Medical Clinic visits
• 319 Radiology procedures
• 3,326 prescriptions filled at the pharmacy
• 1,158 lab procedures
• 625 immunizations
• 6 ambulatory procedures
• 8 Operative Procedure cases
• 6 inpatient admissions
• 18 patients on the wards
• 1-2 live births
• 687 meals served
• 898 Medical Supply items stocked
• GLWACH is home to the following state-of-the-art equipment: An MRI, CT scanner, nuclear medicine camera, ultrasound, patient and fetal monitoring systems, mammography units with biopsy capabilities, digital radiography for both radiology and dental departments.

Command staff:

• Hospital commander
• Deputy Commander for Nursing/Hospital Services
• Deputy Commander for Clinical Services
• Deputy Commander for Administration
• Command Sergeant Major

Fort Leonard Wood is located directly south of St Robert, Mo., along Interstate I-44, midway between Springfield and St Louis. Located in the heart of the Ozarks, Fort Leonard Wood is comprised of 63,000 acres, approximately 98 square miles, adjacent to the Mark Twain National Forest.

(Current as of 23 April 2009)