CURRENT SITUATION (Continued): for ambulatory surgery, the need for old inpatient ward space to be altered for other uses, and the need for surgery and ancillary services to be updated to reflect modern standards. Currently TRICARE, optometry, ophthalmology, and the laser eye center are housed in modular buildings that need to be demolished. Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI) and CT services are also housed in a modular building that is falling apart with sagging floors, a leaking roof, and deteriorated walls. Most clinics suffer severe shortages of waiting, reception, office, and support space. Completion of the planned addition, as well as filling unused courtyards, will allow the modular buildings on the medical campus to be demolished and clinic and ancillary space to be vastly improved

IMPACT IF NOT PROVIDED: Without the project, healthcare operations at the Air Force Academy will continue to be provided in an inadequate and outdated facility. Serious space constraints and infrastructure inefficiencies will go uncorrected and the over 40-year old building will continue to degrade. Staff and patients will continue to receive care in modular buildings that are falling apart.

JOINT USE CERTIFICATION: The Director, Defense Medical Facilities Office certifies that this project has been considered for joint use potential. Joint use construction is recommended.

B. Equipment associated with this project which will be provided from other appropriations:

A host air base wing supporting Headquarters, Thirteenth Air Force which is responsible to PACAF to plan, execute and control aerospace operations throughout the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean areas of responsibility.

025

Construct a single story outpatient clinic to provide medical and dental care to beneficiaries at Andersen AFB. Provide conditioned building connectors to the existing aerospace medicine clinic and logistics building. Provide a reinforced concrete foundation and floor slab, concrete walls, and steel wall studs. The new facility will furnish adequate space for medical, dental, ancillary, and administration operations for the 36th Medical Group. Exterior site work includes an ambulance canopy and entrance canopy. The project will demolish the base's existing clinic. An emergency generator will be provided. The project will be designed in accordance with criteria prescribed in MIL-HDBK-1191, UFAS and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines, and the DoD Antiterrorism/ Force Protection Construction Standard. Operations and Maintenance manuals and Comprehensive Interior Design will be provided. Air Conditioning: 521 KW.

The project will construct a replacement outpatient clinic to provide medical and dental care services to beneficiaries at Andersen AFB.

CURRENT SITUATION:

The project will replace Andersen's marginal healthcare facility that was originally constructed in 1956. Major systems DD FORM 1391. JUL 1999

PREVIOUS EDITION IS OBSOLETE

Responsible for providing education and training for cadets to become Air Force officers; a training wing including three flying training squadrons supporting parachuting and glider aircraft; and an air base wing.