FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – In honor of Christmas and New Year’s Day, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital personnel will observe the federal holidays Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.
Therefore, all Soldier and Patient-Centered Medical Homes and pharmacies will be closed. The hospital remains open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for emergency services, inpatient care, and labor and delivery services. Specialty and surgical services will be closed for a Day of No Scheduled Activities Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, and Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve.
Patient-Centered Medical Homes will remain open on the DONSA for half a day on Christmas Eve and a full day on New Year’s Eve. Soldiers assigned to a Soldier-Centered Medical Home, including Byrd, LaPointe, and Aviation, will be seen in the Air Assault Family Medical Home within the hospital on the DONSAs. Young Eagle Medical Home patients will also be seen in the Air Assault Family Medical Home Christmas Eve and Dec. 28 – 30.
The Town Center pharmacy will open from 8 a.m. to noon and will be the only pharmacy services offered at Fort Campbell Dec. 24. The Town Center Pharmacy will operate normal Saturday hours Dec. 26. The hospital’s Main Pharmacy will open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Town Center Pharmacy will open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 31.
In addition, the Patient and Soldier-Centered Medical Homes, specialty and surgical services will offer limited services after noon Dec. 18. LaPointe, Byrd and Screaming Eagle Medical Home Pharmacies will close at noon Dec. 18 and the Town Center Pharmacy will close at 1 p.m. The Main Pharmacy will remain open until 4 p.m. with limited staffing to handle acute medication needs.