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March 1, 2024

CRDAMC announces its 2024 Best Leader Competition winners

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – Capt. Megan Hower, registered dietician, Staff Sgt. Eugene Mclaurin, licensed vocational nurse, and Spc. Emily Pacheco, behavioral health specialist, are the winners of the 2024 Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Best Leader Competition 1 March. They will move on to compete at the Medical Readiness Command, West Best Leader Competition in May.

Feb. 29, 2024

CRDAMC welcomes its Leap Year Baby

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center welcomed its first baby of the Leap Year Feb. 29. Sgt. Alejandro Sierra, cavalry scout, 3rd Cav. Regt., and his wife Chelsea welcomed baby Nash Alexander at 9:02 a.m., weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces and 20.5 inches.

Feb. 20, 2024

CRDAMC Veteran still serving after 35 years

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas - Charles Henderson, medical evaluation board officer, CRDAMC, and retired Sgt. 1st Class, was awarded a certificate for 35 years of government service in a ceremony at the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center 1 Feb. Henderson retired from the Army after serving 22 years of service as a track vehicle mechanic, worked as a security specialist for the hospital for one year, and has served as a medical evaluations board officer for the past 15 years.

Feb. 6, 2024

Coast Guardsmen cruise to physician assistant duties after IPAP graduation

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – The first ever Coast Guardsmen graduated from the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Interservice Physician Assistant Program in a ceremony at the hospital 1 Feb. IPAP is the largest PA program in the world and ranks amongst the top 15 programs in the nation. It was first established in 1996 when the Army, Navy, and Air Force combined their various PA programs to form IPAP. Today, all branches, including Coast Guard, can apply for this intense 28-month program exclusive to military personnel.

Jan. 26, 2024

First Coast Guardsmen to graduate CRDAMC IPAP program

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – Coast Guardsmen, Lt. Mary Leon, and Lt. j.g. Ethan Etlinger, will be the first to graduate the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Interservice Physician Assistant Program in early February here at Fort Cavazos. The graduates praised the extraordinary dedication of CRDAMC’s leadership, doctors, nurses, and staff for the opportunity and education.

Jan. 5, 2024

CRDAMC health and wellness 2023 year in review

FORT CAVAZSO, Texas – The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center welcomed Millie Ellen Austin, weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces and measuring 19 inches at 4:07 a.m., as the first baby of the New Year to begin 2023, and the long awaited return of the hospital’s Baby Expo and Centering Pregnancy programs highlighted the early part of the year.

Jan. 4, 2024

CRDAMC GME gets matched with new doctors for 2024

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Graduate Medical Education Programs, emergency medicine, family medicine, psychiatry residencies, and emergency ultrasound, and family medicine obstetrics fellowship programs, “matched” 24 doctors who will start their training at the hospital later this year in. The “GME match” is the annual Joint Graduate Medical Education Selection Board that happens every December, and it selects Medical Corps officers (physicians) to train in residency and fellowship programs across the DoD.

Jan. 1, 2024

New Year rings in first baby of 2024 at CRDAMC

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center welcomes, Chance Lee Davis, the first baby of the new year. Baby Chance arrived at 12:30 a.m. and weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces and 19 inches. Proud parents and veterans Douglas IV and Alexa Davis are most looking forward to companionship as a family and seeing Chance, and sister Emery almost two, grow up together and form the brother and sister bond.

Dec. 15, 2023

CRDAMC graduates newest OB/GYN nurse specialists

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center held a graduation for seven new OB/GYN nurse specialists, or 66Gs, in a ceremony at the hospital Dec. 15. The Army first lieutenants endured a 16-week course focused on providing foundational information and skills that prepare Army Nurse Corps officers and Department of Defense civilian registered nurses to function as an advanced beginner OB/GYN staff nurse in a variety of nursing settings.

Dec. 8, 2023

CRDAMC offers holiday safety fair, receives a visit from Shoemaker High School “Wolfpack” choir

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – The Killeen Shoemaker High School choir graced the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center with beautiful holiday songs, and the hospital’s holiday fair brought resources and information to help staff and beneficiaries coop with the stress that the season brings Dec. 8. “We are trying to address those behaves that spike due to stressors during the holiday season,” said Lisa Lerma, sexual assault and response coordinator, CRDAMC.

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