Womack Army Medical Center

Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) is a military hospital located on Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, North Carolina. It is operated by the United States Army Medical Department and is named after Medal of Honor recipient Bryant H. Womack. The center has 138 beds and serves over 160,000 eligible beneficiaries, making it the largest beneficiary population in the Army. WAMC sees approximately 66,000 patients in its emergency department and admits over 11,000 patients annually. The center's physicians perform about 2,700 inpatient and 7,400 outpatient surgeries each year.

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The first military hospital at Camp Bragg, now Fort Bragg, was the Camp Bragg Base Hospital, which was built in September 1918. It had two dispensaries and a headquarters and consisted of 22 buildings with a capacity of 500 beds. In 1919, it was replaced by USA Station Hospital One, an 83-bed, three-story facility. In 1941, USA Station Hospital Number Two and Three were built, with a capacity of 1,680 beds and 1,002 beds respectively.

On August 3, 1958, the nine-story, 500-bed Womack Army Community Hospital opened. It was later renamed Womack Army Medical Center on October 1, 1991. In 2000, a new Womack Army Medical Center was opened, covering an area of 1,020,359 square feet on a 163-acre wooded site, at a cost of $400 million.

In June 2017, Womack Army Medical Center received the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for hospital accreditation, recognizing its continuous compliance with performance standards.