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The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), officially known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951, was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on 113 acres (46 ha) in Washington, D.C. , it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the United States Armed Forces .
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center looking east Walter Reed National Military Medical Center looking southwest. Groundbreaking took place on July 3, 2008, with President George W. Bush officiating. The goal of the merger was for the government to ultimately spend less money maintaining a new building than an old one.
Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH), Washington, D.C. was opened on May 1, 1909, seven years after his death. It merged into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a new hospital complex constructed on the grounds of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, dedicated in 2011.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center (the former hospital in Washington, DC, in operation until 2011) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Walter Reed Hospital .
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal refers to a series of allegations of unsatisfactory conditions, treatment of patients, and management at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington, D.C., culminating in two articles published by The Washington Post in February 2007. Several cases of patient neglect and shoddy ...
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the largest biomedical research facility administered by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The institute is centered at the Forest Glen Annex, in the Forest Glen Park part of the unincorporated Silver Spring urban area in Maryland just north of Washington, DC, but it is a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Medical Research and ...
The Walter Reed Health Care System (WRHCS) is a defunct unit of the United States Army. It was the army's comprehensive and integrated health care delivery system for the National Capital Region . It provides the full range of health care to members of the military and their families as well as members of the federal government.
Due to the closure of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Museum of Health and Medicine relocated—for the tenth time—to U.S. Army Garrison-Forest Glen in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. [13] Authority over the Forest Glen garrison was transferred from WRAMC to Fort Detrick in October 2008.