Report finds plans for new Walter Reed lacking
A Congressional mandate to ensure the new Walter Reed National Medical Center will be a “world-class” medical center has turned into a war of words between the deputy secretary of defense and an independent review board charged with checking the military’s progress.The new Walter Reed medical center is scheduled to open in 2011 at the campus of the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., under BRAC policy that will shutter Walter Reed Army Medical Center that is six miles away in Washington, D.C.According to the Defense Health Board’s Base Realignment and Closing Health Systems Advisory Subcommittee, the Pentagon still needs:• A master plan for the region’s medical centers as well as for the new Walter Reed facility itself.• Continued budget funding for construction on the project.• To determine who will be in charge of the joint facility.• To make changes to fit the definition of “world class,” such as larger operating facilities and single-patient rooms.Those findings come from a report submitted to the Defense Department on July 2 called “Achieving World Class: An Independent Review of the Design Plans for the Walter Reed National Medical Center and…
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Report finds plans for new Walter Reed lacking
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