Ceremony marks closing of Walter Reed hospital
Walter Reed Army Medical Center is seen in Washington. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the military's flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care for more than a century, is closing its doors. (July 21, 2001) Credit: AP 2001
The closing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was described as bittersweet Wednesday as staff members and patients gathered on the hospital's parade grounds in Washington to mark the closing of the Army's flagship hospital after more than a century of providing care.
The hospital's operations are being moved in August to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and to Fort Belvoir, Va. The hospital in Bethesda will be called the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Walter Reed opened in 1909. It has treated military members, their families and presidents. It was scarred by a 2007 scandal about substandard living conditions on its grounds for wounded troops in outpatient care that led to changes in how the military treats the wounded.
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