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The El Paso VA Health Care System has a joint venture with William Beaumont Army Medical Center. This joint venture allows both activities to maximize resource utilization. Through the joint venture, VA purchases emergency department service and inpatient care for acute medical, psychiatric and surgical emergencies.
Clarence Lamar Burpee (12 September 1894 - 6 October 1956) was a United States Army general who commanded the 2nd Military Railway Service during World War II. After service in the United States Marine Corps during World War I , Burpee was a superintendent of terminals with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad .
The 232d Medical Battalion is a medical battalion in the United States Army [1] formed in 1944. [citation needed] The unit is a part of the 32d Medical Brigade. [1]The 232nd Medical Battalion, the largest of its kind within the 32nd Medical Brigade, operates under the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence.
The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army (AMEDD), formerly known as the Army Medical Service (AMS), encompasses the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps"). It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the medical care required by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
[3] (1942-1974) Although the Army still retains portions of the property as the Forest Glen Annex of Fort Detrick, Maryland, all on-site patient care operations ceased when the Heaton Pavilion (Building 2) on the Main Campus at Walter Reed Army Medical Center opened for patient care in 1974.
The Military Health System (MHS) is the internal health care system operated within the United States Department of Defense that provides health care to active duty, Reserve component and retired U.S. Military personnel and their dependents. [1] The missions of the MHS are complex and interrelated: [2]
As the post–Cold War Army shrank, the U.S. Army's Health Services Command (HSC) decided to change the way it did business and operate more like a corporation. [6] In 1992, HSC launched "Gateway To Care", a businesslike approach to health-care delivery. This was to be localized managed care, with improved quality, access and cost.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Walter Reed Health Care System; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; Westover Air Force Base Hospital; Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center; William Beaumont Army Medical Center; Womack Army Medical Center