It provides comprehensive care to all beneficiaries including active duty military, their family members, and retirees.

The La Noria Mesa site remains as the permanent station for Fort Bliss and its medical units.

[10] Remains of the original Army Hospital located at Hart's Mill were uncovered by archaeologists in 2012 near the main campus of the University of Texas at El Paso.

[14] Fort Bliss was directed to surrender to Confederate forces on 31 Mar 1861 after Texas withdrew from the Union, to include the garrison hospital.

Adams, of the 18th Infantry Regiment, commanded the post in 1902 and reported the hospital steward's quarters needed "extensive repairs.

"[20] In his 1903 report, the inspector general found the Fort Bliss hospital was one of several in the Department of Texas showing "defective construction due to inferior material or poor workmanship, or both."

[22] The first Army dental training school was established at the Fort Bliss Post Hospital in September 1916 by Captain Robert T.

[23] The dental school at the Fort Bliss Post Hospital served as a model for similar efforts in the mobilization camps after the April 6, 1917, declaration of war against Germany.

40 of the War Department, June 26, 1920, stipulated that this new hospital at Fort Bliss be named after Major William Beaumont, one of the most famous surgeons of the "Old Army".

[25] The construction of WBGH's 48 buildings in 1920–21 signaled the beginning of Fort Bliss's role as a major military medical center.

WBGH's original mission was to provide general medical care to border patrol troops stationed at Fort Bliss.

In addition, a military school for medical technicians offered specialized training in surgical, dental, laboratory, x-ray, pharmacy, and veterinary procedures.

During the war, the William Beaumont General Hospital trained approximately 16,000 medical technicians, including over a thousand WAC recruits.

[28] In late 1945, Wernher von Braun and the original 82 members of the Project Paperclip group used one of the old WBGH buildings as their initial laboratory and headquarters as noted by an Army historian: The von Braun team set up shop in the dusty remains of a former temporary hospital area.

[31][32] The Fisher House Foundation, which provides free lodging for military families with a hospitalized relative, operates a facility at WBAMC.

[36] The El Paso VA Health Care System has a joint venture with William Beaumont Army Medical Center.