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PRESS RELEASES
- NCR MILITARY MEDICAL FACILITIES WILL BE JOINTLY MANNED
BETHESDA, MD. On 15 January 2009, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England approved the establishment of Joint Commands at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the community hospital at Ft. Belvoir. These new Joint Commands will report to the Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical (JTF CapMed). The new facilities will be staffed as Joint rather than single Service billets with a mix of military medical professionals from the Army, Navy and Air Force.
This unprecedented and transformational decision ushers in a new model for health care delivery in the National Capital Region. While military hospitals have traditionally provided care to beneficiaries from all Services, Military Treatment Facilities have never been staffed with a representative mix of medical personnel from the Service Medical Departments.
- NEW JTF CAPMED CIVILIAN HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL CHARTS THE COURSE FOR MEDICAL CIVILIAN PERSONNEL IN THE NCR
On October 17, 2008, the newly chartered JTF CAPMED CIVILIAN HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL met for the first time to begin planning for the transition of civilian employees to a new regional healthcare delivery environment.
BETHESDA, MD. The Civilian Human Resources Council was chartered by the Commander of Joint Task Force CAPMED to oversee the transition of civilians from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda and the DeWitt Army Community Hospital into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the new Community Hospital at Fort Belvoir in 2011. The Council will also develop and implement a Guaranteed Placement Program for personnel assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and some medical activities in direct support of the hospital who are willing to remain through closure
- Decision: Medical Civilian Personnel Transition in the National Capital Region – November 3, 2008
Decision: Medical Civilian Personnel Transition in the National Capital Region
On October 20, 2008, the Deputy Secretary of Defense made a decision regarding the future of medical civilian personnel in the National Capital Region as BRAC is implemented and the largest capital infrastructure investment ever made in the Military Health System results in two new inpatient hospitals, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the greatly enlarged Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.....
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Groundbreaking – July 3, 2008
New integrated medical, research, teaching and care center of excellence at the
hub of the nation's premiere military regional healthcare system, specializing in
tertiary and casualty care for America's ill and wounded warriors and their
families.
BETHESDA, Md. Defense Department officials will break ground on the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, July 3rd at 10 a.m. on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. Construction of the 345-bed facility represents a new era of joint health care for our nation’s warriors and their families....
- Record of Decision Regarding Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Signed – May 7, 2008
Facility planned as a world-class medical center for wounded troops, families
BETHESDA, Md.--The Department of the Navy yesterday issued a Record of Decision (ROD) addressing actions necessary to create the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations & Environment, B.J. Penn, signed the environmental document officially allowing construction to begin.....
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