Holloman medical clinic celebrates opening with ribbon cutting

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  • By Senior Airman Chase Cannon
  • 49th Wing Public Affairs

Holloman Air Force Base leadership officially opened the new medical clinic with a ribbon cutting ceremony Aug. 18, 2017.

The state-of-the-art facility has new design and technological enhancements, helping ensure world-class healthcare for years to come.

“The pursuit of health, as we start to improve the health of our community, is going to take some time,” said Col. Paul Brezinski, 49th Medical Group commander. “It is the people of the medical group who give this facility life and make it a great place to give care, and a great place to get care.”

The new facility consolidated five buildings formerly used for medical care at Holloman.

“This is an amazing facility,” said Brezinski. “It is only fitting to provide an incredible building to provide care to the most deserving, delivered by the best medics in the Air Force, for decades to come.”

The new clinic will streamline many processes that were previously separated in the former medical facilities. However, Holloman will maintain its partnership with Alamogordo N.M.S. Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center to provide emergency medical care.

“This event symbolizes the relationship we have with Gerald Champion,” said Col. Houston Cantwell, 49th Wing commander. “That has to be a seamless relationship because we are a small clinic, and we do not have an emergency room here.”

The new clinic’s cost was $52 million and took two years to complete.

“This is all about partnership, and coming together as a community,” Cantwell said. “No one does that better than Alamogordo and Holloman.”