Military Health Care

Military Healthcare

TRICARE Services
The TRICARE Services staff is dedicated in providing outstanding medical care for you and your family.
Hours of operation are 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Clinic services include Family Practice, Flight Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Life Skills/Family Advocacy and Dental in Bldg 160. Optometry is located in Bldg. 37. Other services are Laboratory, Pharmacy, Radiology, Physical Therapy, Allergy/ Immunotherapy, and a Health and Wellness Center at the Fall Hall gymnasium. As Warren has no emergency room, customers must call 911 or proceed to the nearest emergency room (locally, proceed to United Medical Center West, 214 East 23rd Street).

Active duty sick call for Family Practice starts at 7:30 a.m. and requires an appointment by calling the TRICARE Service Center from 6:30 to 7 a.m., weekdays at (307) 772-4020. Flight Medicine holds active duty sick call on a "walk in" basis from 7 to 7:30 a.m., weekdays. If you, or one of your dependents, require "urgent" after hours care (to include dental for active duty), please utilize your Take Care of Yourself / Child books, or call the "on-call" Primary Care manager at (307) 773-3461. If you are a new arrival, be sure to enroll yourself and your dependents in TRICARE Prime. This can be accomplished at the TRICARE Service Center, Bldg. 290, located on 10th Cavalry Avenue (307) 772-4020. For information on local dentists that participate in the United Concordia Dependent Dental Plan, call Managed Care Office at (307) 773-3011.

Family Advocacy Program Family Advocacy
Bldg. 160, is designed to prevent and treat issues of family violence within our military families. Services include, but are not limited to, assessment of all reported cases of child abuse and spouse abuse and referrals to appropriate community resources on and off the base. It offers a variety of services for families needing help with parenting, couples' communication and new parenting support services. For more information on any programs offered by Family Advocacy, call (307) 773-4228.

Life Skills Center
The Life Skills Center, Bldg. 160, counsels active duty, retirees, DoD civilians and their families on family and work issues and refers them as appropriate to on- and off-base programs. For more information, call (307) 773-2998.

Community Medical Services
Cheyenne has emerged as a regional medical center, with specialists who are nationally recognized in their fields and a medical and health care community committed to providing the best care available.

United Medical Center
United Medical Center in Cheyenne is one of the state's largest hospitals, providing care for people throughout the region. It offers the latest in medical technology, thanks to community help with fund-raising, and it's particularly recognized for its cancer treatment facility. Operating from two separate facilities, United Medical Center provides a full range of care, including special programs for children, heart and cancer patients. Its two facilities - UMC West and UMC East - each specialize in different areas of care.

Cheyenne also has another hospital - a large Veterans Administration facility on the east side. The Cheyenne VA Medical Center provides primary and secondary inpatient services in medicine and surgery as well as outpatient services in medicine, surgery and psychiatry. Presently, the Medical Center has an operating bed level of 21 hospital beds (12 general medical beds, five intermediate beds and four general surgical beds). The Medical Center also supports a 50-bed Nursing Home Care Unit located within the main hospital building.

The Medical Center provides health services to a veteran population service area containing approximately 42,000 veterans. Tertiary care, such as open-heart surgery and neurosurgery is provided by the Denver VA Medical Center. Long-term psychiatric care is provided by the Sheridan VA Medical Center. Denver and Sheridan VAMCs provide acute inpatient psychiatric care. Cheyenne maintains Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Fort Collins, Colorado and Greeley, Colo. and a VA Contract Clinic in Sidney, Neb.

An excellent relationship is maintained with community health care providers, volunteer and service organizations, and United Medical Center. The Department of Defense sharing agreement developed in 1983 between the 90th Medical Group Clinic at Warren and this facility has developed into a model of interagency sharing. The Department of the Air Force and Department of Veterans Affairs resources shared through this agreement includes inpatient, outpatient, and special medical services. This sharing agreement has continued to expand including sharing of various services such as radiology, cardiopulmonary, laboratory, gynecology, surgical, intensive care services and multiple other services.

Editorial content was provided by the Public Affairs Office, F. E. Warren AFB.