Locations
Central/San Antonio Region
Brooke Army Medical Center
3551 Roger Brooke Dr.
Medical Mall, 2nd Floor
Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234
Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center
1100 Wilford Hall Loop
2nd Floor, Wing C
JBSA Lackland Air Force Base, TX 78236
East/National Capital Region
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
4975 N. Palmer Rd.
Building 85T, 1st Floor
Bethesda, MD 20889
Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center
9300 DeWitt Loop
Meadows Pavillion, Floor 2
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060
Northwest/Puget Sound Region
Madigan Army Medical Center
9040 Jackson Ave.
2nd Floor, Medical Mall
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA 98431
Southwest/San Diego Region
Naval Medical Center San Diego
34520 Bob Wilson Dr., Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92134
Information for Patients
Our goal is to be the primary treatment option for all TRICARE beneficiaries and eligible veterans for full-scale emergency care, specialized treatment, and vision rehabilitation services. Our Ocular Trauma Centers provide around-the-clock care and are equipped to manage all eye injuries. Active duty service members may be eligible for funding for travel expenses if referred from outside of a an ocular trauma center catchment area.
If you're a TRICARE beneficiary and get a referral to an Ocular Trauma Center, you'll follow TRICARE's referral process.
- Cornea
- Keratoplasty (penetrating, lamellar, or endothelial)
- Scleral Fixated Intraocular lenses
- Iris Reconstruction
- Glaucoma
- Primary surgical trabeculectomy and adjunct chemotherapy for glaucoma filtering surgery
- Seton/glaucoma drainage implant for glaucoma
- Cyclodialysis cleft repair
- Iris reconstruction
- Oculoplastics
- Oculoplastic/Orbital surgery
- Orbital fracture repair
- Excision of orbital tumor or lesion and orbital foreign body removal
- Orbital exoneration
- Exploration by lateral orbitotomy
- Orbital volume expansion
- Repair of contracted socket; orbital
- Retina/Vitreous
- Retinal detachment repair
- Pars plana vitrectomy
- Scleral buckle
- Gas-Pneumo-Retinopexy
- Subretinal dissection/membrane removal
- Subretinal hemorrhage evacuation; subretinal
- Therapeutic agent injection; macular translocation
- Macular hole repair
- Epiretinal membrane removal; internal limiting
- Membrane removal; release of vitreomacular traction; scleral fixed drug depot implant; retinal biopsy
- Removal of intraocular foreign bodies from posterior segment
- Draining choroidal effusions/hemorrhages
- Endoscopic posterior segment surgeries, endo-cyclo-photocoagulative ablation
- Scleral fixated intraocular lenses
- Intravitreal taps and injections
- Iris reconstruction
- Strambismus
- Strabismus surgery on horizontal muscles
- Strabismus surgery on vertical and oblique muscles
- Botulinum toxin injection of extraocular muscles
- Visual Rehabilitation
- Specialty contact lens
- Low Vision Rehabilitation for service member covered through established agreement with Veteran Affairs
If you have questions or would like to contact the Ocular Trauma team about your potential care, please send an email to: dha.ncr.medical-affairs.mbx.vce-vcsc@health.mil.
Information for Healthcare Teams
This referral memorandum outlines how and when to refer your patients to an OTC when their eye injury:
- Requires attention from a subspecialist not available at the referring location
- Has significant complications
- Requires attention from multiple specialties, or
- Requires rehabilitation
Patients should not be referred to an OTC for routine ophthalmology or optometry visits.
