ClarksvilleNow.com Reporting
news@clarksvillenow.com
FORT CAMPBELL, KY – Blanchfield Army Community Hospital’s Young Eagle Medical Home will move to the modular buildings off the Bastogne Avenue entrance of the hospital on August 18. Young Eagle Medical Home patients with acute medical needs will be provided care by the Blackhawk Team in the Air Assault Medical Home. All Young Eagle Medical Home patients will begin receiving their care in Building T9169 on August 19.
“Construction is necessary to meet the requirements of the Patient-Centered Medical Home model of care we offer our community. With the current structure of the hospital’s clinics operating in a building constructed in the late 70s, we must continue to renovate in order to meet the medical needs of our community today,” said hospital commander Col. George N. Appenzeller.
The construction will take approximately one year and three months and will involve construction of the Air Assault Family Medical Home teams as well. Three of the four teams within the Air Assault Medical Home will rotate to the former Young Eagle Medical Home Team Soar location within the hospital as their teams undergo construction. Team Huey from the Air Assault Family Medical Home will be first to move to the Young Eagle Medical Home Team Soar space in late August or early September, with Team Comanche and Apache follow.
All the moves are expected to be completed by October 2015. When Young Eagle Medical Home returns back to their renovated space, Team Soar and Team Flight will be joined to communicate and share resources.
Medical Homes will be communicating each move through RelayHealth, the Army’s Secure Email Messaging System.
Those who have not signed up for RelayHealth should do so through their care teams to receive medical information and messages relating to their individual medical homes.