• DGMC treats teen stroke patient with hyperbaric oxygen therapy

    Samantha Pipkin has three goals for 2019: wear high heels to her senior prom, get a driver’s license and shake hands with the principal when she receives her diploma from Paradise High School, Paradise, California. Normally, these actions would be easy for a teenager but they are a reach for Sam,

  • Guevara and medical center 30 years older

    There probably isn’t a door or square-inch of space that Felix Guevara has not touched inside the 808,000 square-foot David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base during the past 30 years. On weekdays, Guevara begins his shift at 2 a.m. repairing, replacing and repainting sheet rock

  • Remembering when DGMC moved to its current home

    When contractors turned over the keys to the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California Oct. 21, 1988, the medical center officially became Air Force property. However, it would take another 60 days to make it ready to receive patients.

  • Travis supports Hurricane Michael victims

    Two Critical Care Air Transport teams from Travis Air Force Base, California, headed to Scott AFB, Illinois, Oct. 10 awaiting the call to support Hurricane Michael victims. The teams are embedding with the 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Scott AFB.

  • Travis medical teams poised to respond to Hurricane Florence

    Travis Air Force Base, California has four three-person Critical Care Transport teams on two-hour standby to evacuate critically ill or injured military and civilian patients to a higher level of care or military treatment facility for additional treatment in the wake of Hurricane Florence.

  • DGMC awards first DAISY Award to Airman

    Call it serendipity, but a medical technician who cared for a veteran with an auto-immune disease is the first person at Travis Air Force Base, California, to receive the Disease Attacking Immune System Award.