San Antonio is home to a new military medical center, now rising at Lackland Air Force Base. The $457-million, 645,000-sq-ft Lackland Ambulatory Care Center is a state-of-the-art replacement hospital that will become the largest ambulatory care center the Dept. of Defense has built to date.
Development of the new facility was driven by the Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) of 2005, an initiative that consolidated all military medical training and health care in the San Antonio area.