President Bush turned a shovelful of dirt to begin construction of a new Walter Reed National Medical Center. The new facility will merge the duties of the existing Army facility in Washington, which came under harsh criticism last year for shoddy care of war veterans, with the operations of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. When construction is completed in 2011, the 6.7 million-square-feet facility will have 345 beds. It will merge the resources of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and make it easier for medical professionals from all three services to collaborate and treat patients.
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Ground Broken on New Walter Reed
Week of July 14, 2008
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