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Walter Reed Hospital to Close; Amputee Center to Open in 2007
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After more than 100 years, the famed Army hospital will merge with the naval medical facility in Bethesda, Md., in 2011. by Tim Dyhouse
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is the highest-profile victim in the latest round of base closings. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended Aug. 24, 2006, that the famous Army hospital shut down and merge with the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., by 2011.
The panel cited Walter Reed's location, the age of its facilities and the lack of room for expansion as reasons to close the hospital. Opened in 1909, it ...
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