Now is the time to review you and your family members' current health plans, consider your needs for 2025, and learn about your coverage choices. TRICARE Open Season begins Monday, Nov. 11 and ends Tuesday, Dec. 10. Enrollment changes made during TRICARE Open Season will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.

Sgt. Ashtin C. Josey, an occupational therapy specialist with the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity – Fort Drum, tests a military retiree’s grip strength during the Fort Drum Retiree Appreciation Day at Fort Drum, N.Y., Sept. 21, 2024. Click above to learn more.

The Virtual Education Center (VEC) is the most comprehensive and reliable resource for health wellness education for all Beneficiaries

The Fort Drum MEDDAC’s Walk-In Contraceptive Clinic is held every Tuesday. Active-duty service members go to Bowe Army Medical Home, 1-3:30 p.m. All other beneficiaries go to the 8:30 - 11:30 a.m., at the Guthrie Clinic’s Primary Care Clinic, 8:30-11:30 a.m. No appointment necessary!

To help aid wounded, ill, and injured Soldiers, Fort Drum’s Soldier Recovery Unit hosted the Boulder Crest Foundation’s Struggle Well course July 22-26, 2024. Struggle Well is a comprehensive program that trains Soldiers to transform their struggles into strength and growth so that they can better serve themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

The U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Drum, NY, was awarded the Army Superior Unit Award for the period of March 1, 2021, to April 30, 2022, for displaying outstanding meritorious service by balancing the challenge of containing a global pandemic while maintaining, and improving upon, excellent healthcare delivery for beneficiaries.

Do you have ideas to help improve your medical care?   Become a patient and family partnership council volunteer!   Patient and Family Partners help us by sharing stories about their healthcare experiences, helping to create materials and plans for improving healthcare quality and safety, providing input on how to improve our policies and care practices, giving feedback about their medical care, letting us know what went well and what we can do better, and more.   To receive information on how to volunteer, click on the link above.

The U.S. Army Medical Department Activity – Fort Drum celebrated the amazing nurses who work and support the service members of Fort Drum and across the Military Health System during National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2024. Throughout the week, leadership visited with MEDDAC nurses to thank them for their invaluable contributions and commitment to making a difference in the community. The week's celebration concluded with a cake-cutting ceremony at the Guthrie Clinic on May 10, hosted by Lt. Col. Betty Moore, the Deputy Commander for Nursing and MEDDAC's chief nurse.