• Be cautious and avoid animal bites

    It’s 85 degrees with a cool Delta breeze rustling through the leaves in your backyard. The barbecue pit is fired up and the savory aroma of the hickory dangles in the air.The kids are running around while the grownups share deployment stories at the table. But then a teen sets off a firecracker and

  • DGMC outpatient pharmacy strives for continual improvement

    On any given day, David Grant USAF Medical Center’s outpatient pharmacy bustles with a constant hum of barcode-scanning beeps, pills rattling in their bottles and storage bins with patients’ prescriptions hitting counters. Those sounds are the outpatient pharmacy staff filling more than 1,000

  • DGMC to collect unused drugs April 28

    This year, David Grant USAF Medical Center will again take part in the campaign to collect expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs to help prevent someone dying from prescriptions obtained–sometimes by theft–from family and friends.

  • JROTC, Health Academy students tour DGMC

    On March 29, 2018, David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, hosted a hospital tour for 80 De Anza High School 11th and 12th grade Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and Health Academy students.

  • DGMC takes back unused drugs Saturday

    An estimated 64,000 people died in 2016 of a drug overdose, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Nearly 22,000 people died in 2010 from prescription drugs obtained, usually by theft, from family and friends.Saturday is National Drug Take-Back Day and the David Grant U.S. Air Force

  • DGMC wins 2017 Medical Lab of the Year Award

    The David Grant USAF Medical Center Clinical and Pathology Laboratory at Travis Air Force Base, California, bested both foreign and domestic laboratories to be named the 2017 Medical Laboratory of the Year.