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56th Medical Group
The 56th Medical Group, located near Phoenix, is an outpatient only Medical Treatment Facility (MTF), which serves more than 90,000 beneficiaries (active duty military members, retirees and their families) in the immediate area. The Medical Group is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. The Medical Group, with more than 600 assigned personnel, has a three-pronged mission that emphasizes providing great healthcare, promoting safety and wellness, and military readiness.
Mission: Ensure mission-ready forces, promote safety and wellness, and provide great health care.
Organizational email: 56mdg.customer.service@luke.af.mil
Commander
Col. Yolanda D. Bledsoe
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Mission: Ensures ready fighting forces by providing administrative, financial, data analysis, management, diagnostic and therapeutic services essential to health promotion and health care for 7,500 active duty and 84,000 eligible beneficiaries. Prepares wing personnel for expeditionary operations to support global missions. Supports 131,000 annual patient visits in an integrated $64M managed care environment with nine flights.
Commercial phone number: (623) 856-2273
Organizational email: 56mdss.cc@luke.af.mil
Commander
Lt. Col. Scott C. Suckow
56th Medical Support Squadron provides support services including laboratory, managed health care, pharmacy, radiology, resource management, and TRICARE Operations and Patient Administration (TOPA) flight.
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Mission: Optimizes performance and ensures medical readiness of the human weapons system for the largest fighter wing in the USAF. Aggressively promotes health, maintains wellness, and minimizes the impact of illness for 7,500 uniformed personnel and 84,000 beneficiaries. Using health care optimization in an integrated managed care environment, annually supports 131,000 ambulatory clinic visits and over 1,300 patient surgeries.
Commercial phone number: (623) 856-4032
Organizational email: 56MDOS.CC@luke.af.mil
Commander
Col. (Dr.) Nicola A. Choate
The 56th Medical Operations Squadron provides outpatient/ambulatory clinical services to TRICARE Prime beneficiaries through its primary care and specialty clinics. A staff of 290 provides health care to over 80,000 eligible beneficiaries.
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Mission: Promote safety and wellness, ensure mission-ready forces, unleash great dental care.
Commercial phone number: (623) 856-2273
Organizational email: 56DS.CC@luke.af.mil
Commander
Col. Larry J. Evans
The 56th Dental Squadron provides active-duty members comprehensive dental care while supporting the readiness of the 56th Fighter Wing to respond to worldwide contingencies.
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Mission: Support 56th Fighter Wing flying/training and deployment mission through superior aeromedical, occupational, environmental and preventative medicine programs.
Commercial phone number: (623) 856-7527
Organizational email: 56AMDS.CC@luke.af.mil
Commander
Col. Neal R. Taylor
The 56th Aerospace Medicine Squadron consists of five flights:
1. Flight Medicine
2. Public Health/Force Health Management
3. Bioenvironmental Engineering
4. Optometry
5. Health Promotions
Flight Medicine Clinic
Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Building 810
The Flight Medicine Clinic provides routine medical care to the base flying population and their dependents. Personnel eligible for medical care include pilots, navigators, air traffic controllers, flight engineers, and all personnel and their dependents that hold a 1042 clearance to fly.
The Flight Medicine Clinic is open Monday - Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The clinic is closed for all federal holidays, goal/down days and base training days.
Active duty-only sick call for flyers is from 7:30 to 8 a.m. and 1 to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The clinic is closed each Thursday afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. for mandatory training.
Routine Medical appointments can be made by calling (623) 856-CARE (2273).
For after hours care; contact the Flight Surgeon on-call via the Luke AFB Command Post at (623) 856-5600.
Should a flyer be seen outside of the Flight Medicine Clinic, it is their responsibility to notify the Flight Surgeon as soon as possible. Flyers may NOT fly until cleared by a Flight Surgeon after receiving treatment in an ER or from a provider outside the hospital. |
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