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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 (September 13, 1851 – November 23, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact.
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 medical research board was forged as a four member board consisting of Walter Reed, James Carroll, Jesse W. Lazear, and Aristides Agramonte. The U.S. Army research detachment was commissioned for public health surveillance regarding a tropical disease susceptible by the predatorial Aedes aegypti or an infectious mosquito in Cuba .
Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH), (1909–1951), Washington, DC, USA, a former U.S. Army general hospital; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), (1951–2011), Washington, DC, once the U.S. Army's main hospital on the East Coast Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal, the 2007 scandal concerning substandard care of soldiers at WRAMC
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