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Global Network: Aeromedical Evacuation:
The Balad hospital was part of global network of comprehensive care. After being treated and stabilized at Balad, critically injured patients were transported to higher levels of care within this network. Between September 2001 and September 2007, multinational responder teams evacuated more than 44,000 patients from Balad.
Severely wounded patients were flown to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Ramstein, Germany, within 24 to 72 hours after arriving at Balad. Patients requiring special care were then transported stateside to hospitals such as Walter Reed Army Medical Center (MRAMC) in Washington, D.C. and National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2011, WRAMC and NNMC merged to form Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. |