WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER

Womack Army Medical Center, located at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., is dedicated to Medal of Honor recipient, and medic, Pfc. Bryant Homer Womack.

The hospital started as a 500-bed facility in 1918 when the post was known as Camp Bragg. Prior to the construction of WAMC in 1955, the hospital was part of two cantonment-type hospitals with a bed-capacity of 2,682 and one-story wood frame wards connected by covered walkways.

Today, the hospital serves more than 160,000 eligible beneficiaries in the region—active duty, retirees, and family members—with services such as obstetrics, orthopedics, optometry, cardiology, hematology-oncology, pulmonology, and chiropractics.

Womack personnel use the latest technology to better serve its patients. From interventional radiology techniques to laser eye surgery, its physicians strive keep their fingers on the pulse of modern medicine.

Area highlights include:

• The Biltmore castle and estate is located in near-by Asheville.
• The ocean and its many beaches are a short drive away.
• Smokey Mountains National Park in North Carolina
• River rafting
• Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills National Park