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Walter Reed Army Medical Center#Base Realignment and Closure, 2005

{{About||the hospital in Bethesda, Maryland|Walter Reed National Military Medical Center|other uses|Walter Reed (disambiguation)}}

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MG Kenneth L. Farmer Jr. (June 2004 – 25 Aug. 2006)
MG. George W. Weightman (25 Aug. 2006 – 1 March 2007)
MG Carla Hawley-Bowland (final commander)

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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 {{convert|113|acre}} in Washington, D.C., it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the United States Armed Forces. The center was named after Walter Reed, a U.S. Army physician and Major who led the team that confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct physical contact.

Since its origins, medical care at the facility grew from a bed capacity of 80 patients to approximately 5,500 rooms covering more than {{convert|28|acre}} of floor space. WRAMC combined with the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland in 2011 to form the tri-service Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). The grounds and historic buildings of the old campus are being redeveloped as The Parks at Walter Reed.{{cite web|url=https://theparksdc.com/about/|title=About|date=19 April 2018 |publisher=The Parks at Walter Reed|access-date=13 April 2020}}

History

=Origins at Fort McNair=

Fort Lesley J. McNair, located in the southwest of the District of Columbia on land set aside by George Washington as a military reservation, is the third oldest U.S. Army installation in continuous use in the United States after West Point and Carlisle Barracks. Its position at the confluence of the Anacostia River and the Potomac River made it an excellent site for the defense of the nation's capital. Dating back to 1791, the post served as an arsenal, played an important role in the nation's defense, and housed the first U.S. Federal Penitentiary from 1839 to 1862.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

Today, Fort McNair enjoys a strong tradition as the intellectual headquarters for defense. Furthermore, with unparalleled vistas of the picturesque waterfront and the opposing Virginia shoreline, the historic health clinic at Fort McNair, the precursor of today's Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), overlooks the residences of top officials who choose the famed facility for the delivery of their health care needs.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

"Walter Reed's Clinic," the location of the present day health clinic at Washington, D.C., occupies what was from 1898 until 1909 the General Hospital at what was then Washington Barracks, long before the post was renamed in honor of Lt. Gen. McNair who was killed in 1944. The hospital served as the forerunner of Walter Reed General Hospital; however, the Victorian era waterfront dispensary remains and is perhaps one of America's most historically significant military medical treatment facilities. It is reported that Walter Reed lived and worked in the facility when he was assigned as Camp Surgeon from 1881 to 1882. After having served on other assignments, he returned as Professor of Medicine and Curator of the Army Medical Museum. Some of his epidemiological work included studies at Washington Barracks, and he is best known for discovering the transmission of yellow fever. In 1902, Major Reed underwent emergency surgery here for appendicitis and died of complications in this U.S. Army Medical Treatment Facility (MTF), within the very walls of what became his final military duty assignment.Adler, 2014

Regarding the structure itself, since the 1890s the health clinic was used as an Army General Hospital where physicians, corpsmen and nurses were trained in military health care. In 1899, the morgue was constructed which now houses the Dental Clinic, and in 1901 the hospital became an entirely separate command. This new organizational command relocated eight years later with the aide of horse-drawn wagons and an experimental steam driven ambulance in 1909. Departing from the 50-bed hospital, as documented in The Army Nursing Newsletter, Volume 99, Issue 2, February 2000,{{cite web|url=http://www.narmc.amedd.army.mil/|title=Regional Health Command – Atlantic – Home|website=www.narmc.amedd.army.mil|access-date=2 June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080628051255/http://www.narmc.amedd.army.mil/|archive-date=28 June 2008}} they set out due north transporting with them 11 patients initially to the new 65-bed facility in the northern aspect of the capital. Having departed Ft. McNair, the organization has since developed into the Walter Reed Army Medical Center that we know today.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

As for the facility they left behind at Fort McNair, it functioned in a smaller role as a post hospital until 1911 when the west wing was converted into a clinic.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

=Walter Reed General Hospital and WRAMC=

Congressional legislation appropriated $192,000 for the construction of Walter Reed General Hospital{{cite news |title= Hospital Under Way |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= February 3, 1907 |page= R7 |id= {{ProQuest|144711780}} |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/31594655/?match=1&terms=%22Walter%20Reed%20General%20Hospital%22 }} (WRGH, now known as "Building 1"). The firm of Marah & Peter did the architectural designs, and Cramp & Company was awarded the construction contract. was the Construction began in 1907. The first ten patients were admitted on 1 May 1909. Lieutenant Colonel William Cline Borden was the initiator, planner and effective mover for the creation, location, and first Congressional support of the Medical Center. Due to his efforts, the facility was nicknamed "Borden's Dream."{{cite web|url=http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/welcome/history/|title=Major Walter Reed, Medical Corps, U.S. Army.|access-date=2 June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023070838/http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/welcome/history/|archive-date=23 October 2007}}

In 1923, General John J. Pershing signed the War Department order creating the "Army Medical Center" (AMC) within the same campus as the WRGH. (At this time, the Army Medical School was relocated from 604 Louisiana Avenue and became the "Medical Department Professional Service School" (MDPSS) in the new Building 40.) Pershing lived at Walter Reed from 1944 until his death there 15 July 1948.

File:Walter Reed Hospital 1919 LOC 6a34053u.jpg

In September 1951, "General Order Number 8" combined the WRGH with the AMC, and the entire complex of 100 rose-brick Georgian Revival style buildings was at that time renamed the "Walter Reed Army Medical Center" (WRAMC). In June 1955, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) occupied the new Building 54 and, in November, what had been MDPSS was renamed the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). 1964 saw the birth of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing (WRAIN). Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower died at WRAMC on 28 March 1969.

Starting in 1972, a huge new WRAMC building (Building 2) was constructed and made ready for occupation by 1977. WRAIR moved from Building 40 to a large new facility on the WRAMC Forest Glen Annex in Maryland in 1999. Subsequently, Building 40 was slated for renovation under an enhanced use lease by a private developer.

In 2007, the University of Pennsylvania and WRAMC established a partnership whereby proton therapy technology would be available to treat United States military personnel and veterans in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine's new Roberts Proton Therapy Center.{{cite web |url=http://www.pennmedicine.org/perelman/proton/walter_reed.html |title=Collaborative Research Effort with the United States Military | Roberts Proton Therapy Center |publisher=Pennmedicine.org |access-date=2013-04-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601004836/http://www.pennmedicine.org/perelman/proton/walter_reed.html |archive-date=2013-06-01 }}{{cite journal|pmid=17668956 | volume=6 | issue=4 Suppl | title=The University of Pennsylvania/Walter Reed Army Medical Center proton therapy program |date=August 2007 | journal=Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. | pages=73–76| last1=McDonough | first1=J. | last2=Tinnel | first2=B. | doi=10.1177/15330346070060S412 | doi-access=free }}

=2007 neglect scandal=

{{Main|Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal}}

In February 2007, The Washington Post published a series of investigative articles outlining cases of alleged neglect (physical deterioration of housing quarters outside hospital grounds, bureaucratic nightmares, etc.) at WRAMC as reported by outpatient soldiers and their families. A scandal and media furor quickly developed resulting in the firing of the WRAMC commanding general Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman,{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics|title=Politics News – Breaking Political News, Video & Analysis|website=ABC News|access-date=2 June 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601232134/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/|archive-date=1 June 2017}} the resignation of Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey (reportedly at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/walter_reed|title=Army secretary resigns in scandal's wake|access-date=2 June 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231052904/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/walter_reed/|archive-date=31 December 2015}}), the forced resignation of Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, hospital commander from 2002 to 2004.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/walter_reed|title=Army's Kiley ousted in Walter Reed furor|access-date=2 June 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317154346/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/walter_reed|archive-date=17 March 2007}} Congressional committee hearings were called and numerous politicians weighed in on the matter including President George W. Bush, who had appointed Harvey, and Vice-president Dick Cheney. Several independent governmental investigations are ongoing and the controversy has spread to other military health facilities and the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system.

=2005 BRAC recommendation and 2011 closure=

File:George W. Bush at Walter Reed.jpg George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visit Sgt. Patrick Hagood of Anderson, South Carolina on October 5, 2005.]]

As part of a Base Realignment and Closure announcement on 13 May 2005, the Department of Defense proposed replacing Walter Reed Army Medical Center with a new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC); the new center would be on the grounds of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, {{convert|7|mi|km|spell=in}} from WRAMC's location in Washington, D.C. The proposal was part of a program to transform medical facilities into joint facilities, with staff including Army, Navy, and Air Force medical personnel.

On 25 August 2005, the BRAC Committee recommended passage of the plans for the WRNMMC. The transfer of services from the existing to the new facilities was gradual to allow for continuity of care for the thousands of service members, retirees and family members that depended upon WRAMC. The end of operations at the WRAMC facility occurred on 27 August 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/27/washington.military.hospital/|title=Walter Reed Army Medical Center closes its doors in final ceremony|date=27 August 2011|publisher=CNN|access-date=16 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628160410/http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/27/washington.military.hospital/|archive-date=28 June 2015}} The Army says the cost of closing that hospital and consolidating it with Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland more than doubled to $2.6 billion since the plan was announced in 2005 by the Base Realignment and Closing Commission.{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/19/washington.military.hospital/index.html | work=CNN | title=Health care difficulties in the Big Easy | date=28 February 2006 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209224734/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-19/us/washington.military.hospital_1_patient-transfers-beds-new-hospital?_s=PM:US | archive-date=9 February 2012 }}

Gallery

Old Walter Reed Main Building 2020a.jpg|Main Building

Old Walter Reed Main Building 2020f.jpg|East wing of Main Building

Old Walter Reed Main Building 2020g.jpg|West wing of Main Building

Old Walter Reed Great Lawn 2020a.jpg|Great Lawn

Old Walter Reed 2020a.jpg|Buildings 8 and 9

Old Walter Reed 2020b.jpg|Building 12

Old Walter Reed 2020d.jpg|Borden Pavilion

Old Walter Reed 2020f.jpg|Building 7

Old Walter Reed 2020i.jpg|Vaccaro Hall

Old Walter Reed Abrams Hall 2020a.jpg|Abrams Hall

Old Walter Reed 2020k.jpg|Wagner Sports Center

Old Walter Reed 2020l.jpg|Mologne House

Old Walter Reed 2020m.jpg|Power plant

Old Walter Reed 2020n.jpg|Doss Memorial Hall

Old Walter Reed 2020o.jpg|Walter Reed Monument

Old Walter Reed Delano Hall 2020a.jpg|Delano Hall

Old Walter Reed 2020r.jpg|Building T20

Old Walter Reed Institute of Pathology 2020b.jpg|Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Old Walter Reed 2020s.jpg|Building 21

Old Walter Reed 2020t.jpg|Memorial Chapel

Old Walter Reed 2020u.jpg|Fisher House

Old Walter Reed 2020w.jpg|Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Old Walter Reed 2020x.jpg|Building 52

Old Walter Reed 2020y.jpg|Old Red Cross Building

Old Walter Reed 2020z.jpg|Campus map

Notable patients

{{incomplete list|date=September 2012}}

Tenants

In addition to the WRAMC hospital complex, the WRAMC installation hosted a number of other related activities and organizations.

Commanding officers

Although after 1992 officers of any branch of the Army Medical Department could command medical treatment facilities, every commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center was a member of the Army Medical Corps.

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File:Major General Richard D Cameron.jpgMajor GeneralSortname|Richard D. Cameronalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1989|5}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1992|10}}Later Commanding General, United States Army Health Services Command
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File:Major General James H. Rumbaugh.jpgMajor GeneralSortname|James H. Rumbaughalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1988|8}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1989|3}}Died while in command
File:Major General Lewis Malogne.jpgMajor GeneralSortname|Louis A. Malognealign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1983|6}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1988|8}} Medically retired 1 August 1988; died 22 August 1988
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File:BTMittemeyer.jpgMajor General{{Sortname|Bernard T.|Mittemeyer}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1980|6}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1981|9}}Later Surgeon General of the Army
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File:Major General Robert Bernstein.jpgMajor GeneralSortname|Robert Bernsteinalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1973|6}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1978|2}}Previously Command Surgeon, Military Assistance Command Vietnam
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File:Major General Glenn J Collins.jpgMajor GeneralSortname|Glenn J. Collinsalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1969|6}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1970|10}}Previously Commanding General 44th Medical Brigade and Command Surgeon, United States Army, Vietnam
File:Major General Philip W Mallory.jpgMajor GeneralSortname|Phillip W. Malloryalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1967|5}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1969|6}}
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File:Leonard Dudley Heaton.jpgMajor General{{Sortname|Leonard D. |Heaton}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1953|4}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1959|6}}Later Surgeon General of the Army
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File:Major General George C Beach.jpgMajor GeneralSortname|George C. Beachalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1946|3}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1948|11}}
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File:Brigadier General Wallace C DeWitt.jpgBrigadier GeneralSortname|Wallace C. DeWittalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1935|8}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1939|12}}Namesake of former DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
File:Brigadier General Albert E Truby.jpgBrigadier GeneralSortname|Albert E. Trubyalign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1932|1}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1935|7}}As a lieutenant, Truby served under Walter Reed in Cuba during the yellow fever experiments
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File:Colonel William H Arthur.jpgColonelSortname|William H. Arthuralign=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1908|6|1}}align=center| {{Dts|format=dmy|1911|7|11}}{{cite web |url=https://ke.army.mil/bordeninstitute/other_pub/borden/Chapt05.pdf/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-04-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216171220/https://ke.army.mil/bordeninstitute/other_pub/borden/Chapt05.pdf |archive-date=2013-02-16 }}Worked with Major Walter Reed at the Army Medical Bacteriological Laboratory while stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, 1895–1897. Retired as a brigadier general in 1918.{{cite web|url=http://stimson.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15290coll6/id/836/rec/2/|title=Brigadier General William H. Arthur (1856-1936) :: Army Medical Bulletin, 1922-1949|website=stimson.contentdm.oclc.org|access-date=2 June 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507210038/http://stimson.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15290coll6/id/836/rec/2/|archive-date=7 May 2016}}
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See also

References

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Further reading

  • Adler, Jessica L. "The Founding of Walter Reed General Hospital and the Beginning of Modern Institutional Army Medical Care in the United States." Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences (2014) 69#4 pp. 521–53.

External links

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  • [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/walter-reed/index.html Walter Reed and Beyond – A Washington Post Investigation]
  • [https://www.army.mil/-news/2007/03/18/2297-army-announces-wounded-soldier-hotline/ Wounded Soldiers Hotline]
  • [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html Soldiers face neglect, frustration at army's top medical facility]
  • [http://www.studentcam.org/winners_2007.asp/ Award winning student film on the controversy at Walter Reed]
  • {{Internet Archive short film|id=gov.archives.arc.2569509|name=Big Picture: The Soldier Patient}}
  • [http://watch.weta.org/video/1376845623 Walter Reed Army Medical Center] Documentary produced by WETA-TV

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