MEDIA ADVISORY: CRDAMC groundbreaking ceremony, Dec. 13

FORT HOOD, Texas – Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center leaders will host the groundbreaking ceremony for the new $534 million medical center at 9 a.m. Dec. 13 at the site of the old Fort Hood Stadium.

At 947,000 square feet, the new medical center will be 60 percent larger than the current building and will include a six-story hospital, three out-patient clinic buildings and three parking garages. This is the largest Department of Defense contract financed with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds and the largest design-build project in the Department of Defense medical construction program.

The following dignitaries are scheduled to speak: Honorable Mike McCord, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller); U.S. Representatives John Carter and Chet Edwards; Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, Army Surgeon General and Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command; Maj. Gen. Michael Eyre, Deputy Commanding General (Reserve Affairs), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maj. Gen. William Grimsley, Commanding General, Fort Hood.

Media interested in covering the event should register at the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Press Center at www.forthoodpresscenter.com/go/survey/3439/4979. Media must register by 10 a.m. Dec. 10.

Media should meet public affairs representatives at the Fort Hood Visitor Center south side parking lot at 8 a.m. Media desiring to bring live satellite trucks on post will need their trucks to arrive by 7 a.m. at Fort Hood's Clarke Gate, which is further west on U.S. 190 toward Copperas Cove, Texas.  

For more information on the new medical center and for artist renderings of the new facility, visit the groundbreaking press center at www.forthoodpresscenter.com/go/doc/3439/953479.