Tired of driving to Topeka for your women's health exams? You now have a choice closer to home.
IACH is proud to announce an expanded partnership with the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System to bring specialized, comprehensive women's health care directly to female veterans in our local community. From routine wellness exams to specialized follow-ups, our modern facility is fully equipped to support your health journey.
Available Services Include:
Routine Pap smears
Clinical breast exams
Mammograms
Specialized gynecological follow-up care
The next time you need a women's wellness exam, ask your VA provider to send your Gynecology referral to Irwin Army Community Hospital.
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Somewhere in a deployed environment, a Soldier is wounded. A combat medic rapidly intervenes to stop the bleeding. But when the medic's algorithms reach their limit, there is no hospital trauma team waiting behind a set of double doors.
With the nearest hospital miles away, complex medical decisions must be made without delay. It’s in these austere locations that the medics look to an Army physician assistant for expertise.
That responsibility is one reason Sgt. Brent Kendall and Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Soria chose this career path.
They graduated from the Army’s Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) on June 12 after nearly 30 months of training. Both began their military medical careers as combat medics. And both say...
06.12.2026 | FORT RILEY, KANSAS, US |
Story by Jorge Gomez
Two former combat medics, Sgt. Brent Kendall and Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Soria, graduated from the Army’s Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) to become highly autonomous medical providers at the tactical edge. The rigorous 30-month program challenged them to transition from executing algorithmic trauma care to applying complex, critical diagnostic thinking. By choosing the Army PA route over traditional medical school, these graduates leveraged their prior military leadership to rapidly return to the operational force and serve as a medical authority for deployed Soldiers.
