For retirees, NPRC (MPR) stores records of inpatient, outpatient, dental, and mental health treatment.  These records reflect health care for former members during their retirement years.  Some record collections date from the 1940’s and 1950’s, but more comprehensive information exists beginning in the 1960’s.  The retiree records are sent to NPRC (MPR) from medical treatment facilities after 1-3 years of inactivity and are retained for 50 years from the year of last patient activity.  Health records were formerly retired to NPRC with the personnel record portion when a member retired from the military service.  (Exception:  Navy and Marine Corps were filed in the medical record portion.)  Since the early 1990’s, most health records are retired directly to the VA, RMC.

Medical treatment records are filed as organizational records by hospital name or number.  Information needed to conduct a search includes:

                                1) name,
                                2) service number/SSN
                                3) whether inpatient, outpatient, dental, mental health record is desired
                                4) place of treatment
                                5) dates of treatment

NOTE:  For inpatient records, the numerical designation (e.g. 102nd Evacuation Hospital) and/or the city/country/base of the treatment facility are vital.

Source:  NPRC 1865.103 and NPRC 1865.121