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 App Solutions | Walter Reed Case Study
Although Walter Reed Army Medical Center isn’t on the front lines, the hospital is not far removed from the action.
The mission of Walter Reed is to provide advanced and sub-specialty health care and services to soldiers, their families, and a large community of military retirees.
In one case, a soldier arrived at Walter Reed with blast damage to his face, which should have been protected by the shielding of the vehicle in which he was riding.
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 Barack Obama - U.S. Senator for Illinois
Walter Reed is about a half hour away from the Capitol, and during the drive over, I had the opportunity to talk with representatives from the Army about some of the grim statistics behind the war in Iraq.
In the occupational therapy center of Walter Reed, I met a young man whose legs had been blown off from mortar fire and who had sustained severe nerve damage in his arms and hands.
He was sewing as a means of regaining his small motor skills, and as his wife looked on they talked about the efforts they were making to piece their lives back together, and the wonderful way that their young daughter had embraced her father and told him she loved him despite his disfigurement.
obama.senate.gov /blog/050412-my_visit_to_walter_reed_army_medical_center/index.html   (1119 words)

  
 RedOrbit - Health - Process of Care for Battle Casualties at Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Part I. Orthopedic ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), an echelon V facility, has been a primary hub in the United States for receiving Army battle casualties from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
A military medical technician or nurse was assigned to each patient and escorted him or her through the entire triage process while initiating appropriate paperwork.
Medical evaluation boards, if required, were completed at the time of discharge or the time of optimal functional improvement.
www.redorbit.com /news/health/443663/process_of_care_for_battle_casualties_at_walter_reed_army/index.html?source=r_health   (2203 words)

  
 Walter Reed breaks ground for amputee training center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The center is expected to be completed in December 2005 at a cost of $10 million.
The center will also bring together all of the services caring for Walter Reed's amputee patients, including social work, Veterans Affairs counselors, and the staff of physical medicine and rehabilitation service (which includes occupational therapy, physical therapy, and prosthetics).
Farmer said the amputee center is a continuation of Army medicine's long history of "taking care of the nation's Soldiers and wounded-in-action" that began during the American Revolution.
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 Online NewsHour: Walter Reed Army Medical Center Set to Close -- August 25, 2005
The medical center was named for Major Walter Reed, whose late 19th Century research revealed that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes, rather than direct human contact.
Walter Reed is also known as the hospital of presidents.
The new hospital would be a combination of both the Naval Medical Corps and the Army Medical Corps, but I have faith in the tradition of the Walter Reed military hospital that it will continue to do great things in the 21st Century in its new incarnation.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec05/walterreed_8-25.html   (1602 words)

  
 Save Walter Reed Medical Army Center, a National Resource
Walter Reed has gone to a just-in-time policy on supplies, which means only a week's worth of medical supplies are stored at any one time, so such a large storage building is not needed.
This environment of cutting-edge care, medical education, and research has attracted a highly motivated, experienced, and skilled group of senior officers who are daily fulfilling the promise to our soldiers, on the battlefield as well as in the medical center, of providing them every chance to recover to lead a full and rewarding life.
Tertiary medical centers committed to complex care, education, and research during peace are part of the cost of having a competent medical force during war.
www.larouchepub.com /other/interviews/2005/3226john_pierce_m.d..html   (2143 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Hospital's history turns a page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Walter Reed Army Medical Center is named for Maj. Walter Reed, whose research on yellow fever took him to Cuba.
Retired Col. John Pierce, a former Army doctor and historian for the Walter Reed Society, said the base closingcommission did not adequately gauge the hospital's value.
Walter Reed, hesaid, treats thousands of patients for myriad illnesses, trains military physicians in a vast array of specialties and handles most of the seriously wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-08-26-historic-hospital_x.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Walter Reed Army Medical Center's mental health response to the Pentagon attack Military Medicine - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This article describes the activities of the mental health clinical departments (Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Social Work) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) after the attack on the Pentagon, the nature of the mission, the coordinated response effort, the complexity of the tasks that needed to be completed, and the lessons learned.
It was in the midst of this confusion and chaos that the medical and mental health responses were planned and conducted.
A response team from the WRAMC Emergency Department was sent to the Pentagon for this purpose, and the Emergency Department prepared for the arrival of casualties from the event.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200209/ai_n9094652   (768 words)

  
 Amputee center being built at Walter Reed - Boston.com
Walter Reed officials still expect the 30,000-square-foot addition to the military hospital to include a running track, a climbing and rappelling wall and a virtual-reality center, as well as a military vehicle simulator to help some soldiers return to the battlefield.
But the amputee center is now considered temporary, to serve soldiers for only five to seven years due to the BRAC decision, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Walter Reed is supposed to move to an expanded suburban military hospital in 2011, under the BRAC recommendations President Bush signed last year.
www.boston.com /yourlife/health/other/articles/2006/01/17/amputee_center_being_built_at_walter_reed?mode=PF   (583 words)

  
 BREITBART.COM - Walter Reed Medical Center to Be Closed
Most of Walter Reed's work would be relocated to a more modern, expanded hospital in Bethesda, Md., that will be renamed Walter Reed in a nod to the old facility's heritage.
Under the Walter Reed plan, most of the staff and services would move from the old hospital's main post to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, to create the expanded facility.
Walter Reed's care is considered first-rate but the facility is showing its age, the commission found.
www.breitbart.com /news/2005/08/25/D8C6TUA00.html   (911 words)

  
 Walter Reed Army Medical Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) is the U.S. Army's premier medical center on the east coast of the United States.
The center is named after Major Walter Reed, an army surgeon who led the team which confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct contact.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center is considered a tertiary care center and houses numerous medical and surgical specialties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center   (426 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Walter Reed Army Medical Center selected to close   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WASHINGTON — Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where seriously wounded soldiers have received care since 1909, was recommended to close by the federal base closure commission.
Along with Walter Reed, the Washington area was further affected as the commission voted to shift more than 20,000 military and civilian defense jobs from leased office space in Washington's Virginia suburbs near the Pentagon to military bases farther from the capital.
While the panel voted to consolidate a number of training and personnel facilities around the country, the Walter Reed decision was the commission's highest-profile move Thursday.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-08-25-base-closing_x.htm?csp=34   (720 words)

  
 APTA | Physical Therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) is the hub of the Walter Reed Health Care System (WRHCS), which includes 10 facilities in three states.
She also is the physical therapy consultant to the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command (NARMC), which includes 10 clinics in the WRHCS and 15 facilities in the NARMC.
Reed recalls that he initially spoke several times with one of Lynch's PTs on the telephone.
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 Walter Reed Society Collectibles
Proceeds from the sales of Walter Reed Society collectibles are used to support the purposes of the Society and to assist soldiers and their families who have special needs during their treatment at Walter Reed.
In May 1900 Walter Reed was named to head a "Board" of medical officers appointed by The Surgeon General to study infectious diseases, especially yellow fever, in Cuba.
In 1951, to mark the 100th anniversary of Walter Reed's birth, the name of the installation was changed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and it continued to gain national and international prominence as world-renown figures came for care and to visit the sick and wounded.
www.walterreedsociety.org /Collectibles.htm   (772 words)

  
 Human immunodeficiency virus social work program at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center: A historical perspective ...
The U.S. Army was becoming increasingly aware of the potential impact HIV could have on the active forces.
The Commanding General of WRAMC responded immediately and directed that in addition to the medical evaluation for HIV disease, a comprehensive psychosocial assessment and treatment program for the emotional components of HIV disease be incorporated into the evaluative process.
Army social work was summoned by the WRAMC medical command in 1985 to assist with this critical mission to develop a comprehensive psychosocial support program and prevent any further suicides.
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 Walter Reed Army Medical Center - Twice victims 04/09/06
As if the patients and staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center didn't have enough problems, now they are to be invaded by members of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church.
Walter Reed patients shouldn't be harassed for the arguable sins of Americans
By coincidence last week, at the same time the Westboro Baptists were announcing their plans to picket Walter Reed, The Associated Press sent out a news story, published by this newspaper and others all over the country, about the deplorable situation at Walter Reed.
www.cjonline.com /stories/040906/opi_walterreed.shtml   (501 words)

  
 MEDCOM's 2 Installations
The U.S. Army Medical Command has command and control of two Army installations—Fort Detrick, located in Frederick, Md., and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Fort Detrick hosts 30 tenants from the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, Justice, Treasury, and Health and Human Services.
In addition to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Walter Reed installation is home to the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the DOD Deployment Health Clinical Center, to name only a few of the distinguished organizations located on the installation.
While not under Medical Command control, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, is known as "the home of Army Medicine." It houses MEDCOM headquarters, the Army Medical Department Center and School, Brooke Army Medical Center and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, among other tenants.
www.armymedicine.army.mil /about/intro/2installations.html   (160 words)

  
 Conservative Propaganda: Walter Reed Protest
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC has treated military patients for nearly a century.
Walter Reed treats them in a large orthopaedic ward there where amputees are fitted with prosthetics made on site.
The Code Pink protestors (the name was taken from hospital code for a kidnapped baby or it's a spoof of the color-coded terror alerts, depending on who you read) set up camp on the south side of the main entrance to Walter Reed on Georgia Avenue, about five miles north of the White House.
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 Virtual Colonoscopy Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
National Cancer Institute of NIH has release the complete study set of Walter Reed's study data.
The training program at Walter Reed's Virtual Colonoscopy Training Center is now CME certified.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Virtual Colonoscopy Center has released the 52 training cases for public use.
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 Walter Reed Army Medical Center
By Congressional legislation, construction of the Walter Reed General Hospital was authorized, and the Hospital admitted its first patients on May 1, 1909.
Named in Major Walter Reed's honor, the medical center was founded on principles that would integrate patient care, teaching and research.
Today, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center continues to serve the military community from the Washington, D.C. area, and around the world, admitting 16,000 patients a year.
www.nlm.nih.gov /hmd/medtour/wreed.html   (269 words)

  
 MTF Locator - Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Walter Reed's Emergency Services, 202-782-1199 / 3927, are open round the clock, and may be used by anyone
in a life-threatening medical condition for whom there is not another emergency facility closer by.
Walter Reed is a partner in the Walter Reed Health Care System along with DeWitt Army Health Care Network in Northern Virginia
www.tricare.osd.mil /MTF/facility.aspx?fid=4   (512 words)

  
 Walter Reed Society News Page
Walter Reed Society member, John R. Pierce, COL, MC (Retired) and James V. Writer are the authors of a book published by John Wiley and Sons of New York.
A long time member of the medical staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Pierce is now Medical Inspector for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Writer who previously worked at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is now employed by the Department of Agriculture.
www.walterreedsociety.org /news.htm   (415 words)

  
 Walter Reed Army Medical Center
The Walter P Carter Center is a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Winchester Medical Center is a hospital in Winchester, Virginia (USA).
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 Walter Reed and Bethesda Medical Centers Merging » Outside The Beltway | OTB
Walter Reed Army Medical Center will essentially be closed, or “consolidated” on the grounds of the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center.
And keeping the Walter Reed name attached to what will surely be the military’s premier facility is a nice touch, too.
The two big medical platforms there are Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston and the 59th Medical Wing’s Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base.
www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2005/05/walter_reed_and_bethesda_medical_centers_merging   (1072 words)

  
 Army Medical Department Home Page
This Web site provides an introduction to the U.S. Army Medical Department's headquarters organizations, which are the Office of the Army Surgeon General and U.S. Army Medical Command headquarters.
It is intended for interested members of the public, news media and Army Medical Department beneficiaries.
SFC Class James Barlow, a translator from the Utah Army Nation Guard, watches Beninese Army medics carry a “wounded comrade” during classes held at the Benin Army’s Noncommissioned Officers Academy for MEDFLAG ’06.
www.armymedicine.army.mil   (78 words)

  
 History for Walter Reed Army Medical Center
The cantonment hospital was closed, and except for five buildings that were used as warehouses for the installation?s medical supplies, was converted to administrative areas and classrooms for other installation activities.
September 1, 1968, U.S. Army Dispensary and Dental Clinic, Fort Detrick, MD, was organized and assigned to U.S. Kimbrough Army Hospital.
U.S. Kimbrough Army Hospital was officially discontinued as an organization on October 1, 1996; however, on that date it was officially reestablished as Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center.
military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,107882|851455,00.html   (751 words)

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