DeWitt Army Community Hospital
| Fort Belvoir Community Hospital | |
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| Active | Aug. 31, 2011 - Present |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Department of Defense |
| Type | Hospital |
| Role | Inpatient and Outpatient Services |
| Size | 120 beds |
| Garrison/HQ | Fort Belvoir, Virginia |
| Motto(s) | "Where evidence-based design meets patient- and family-centered care in a culture of excellence." |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
January 17, 2014 - Present Captain Jennifer Vedral-Baron |
January 17, 2014 - Present
Fort Belvoir Community Hospital is a military treatment facility operated by the Department of Defense. Located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, south of Washington D.C., the hospital is part of an integrated health care system under the National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR MD) (formerly Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical (JTF CapMed)) providing health care to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.
The $1.03 billion, 1.3 million-square-foot facility replaced DeWitt Army Community Hospital located on Fort Belvoir and integrated various aspects of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., officially in August 2011 in accordance with 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Law.
The former DeWitt Army Community Hospital at Fort Belvoir, Va., for which Fort Belvoir Community Hospital replaced, was named in honor of Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt, Sr., (1878–1949), a surgeon who served in World War I and World War II.
The DeWitt Army Community Hospital opened in 1957, having cost $4.5 million to construct. It was the second of nine hospitals planned by the Army during the building program following the Korean War. DeWitt was a 46-bed Joint Commission-accredited facility and the only military inpatient facility in Northern Virginia. It was the center of the DeWitt Health Care Network, which featured the Andrew Rader Army Health Clinic at Fort Myer, Fort A.P. Hill, and the Family Health Centers of Woodbridge and Fairfax in Virginia.
As part of a Base Realignment and Closure announcement on May 13, 2005, the Department of Defense proposed closing Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and merging it with the National Naval Medical Center located in Bethesda, MD, and DeWitt Army Community Hospital. Moving nearly half of Walter Reed’s services to DeWitt would greatly expand the hospital’s mission. In November 2007, ground was broken on Fort Belvoir’s South Post golf course for the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.
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