Walter Reed medical center: Inside the storied hospital where President Trump is being treated.
in Bethesda, Maryland, is a sprawling 243-acre complex about 9 miles from the White House that includes a presidential suite, a first lady's suite and a self-contained area where the president and a small group, including the White House physician, can live and work.
The area, which unlike the rest of the facility is controlled by the White House, has its own intensive care unit, kitchen, dining room and several sitting rooms, including at least one secure room that can be used as a conference room or office. There's also a space that's been set aside for the White House chief of staff to use while the president is there.Tim Dillon / USA TODAY Network When the president is not there, top military brass, Cabinet members and other dignitaries, including foreign leaders, are treated in the executive medicine area.for"a few days." He is far from the first president to be examined and treated at the Department of Defense facility that has roots dating back over a century. Walter Reed General Hospital opened on May 1, 1909. Named for an Army major who helped discover that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes, the hospital tended to numerous presidents and injured soldiers in Washington, D.C.about inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers there, the Army hospital was merged with the other go-to medical facility for presidents and politicians, the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, to form the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2011.describes it as"the world's largest joint military medical center," with more than 2.4 million square feet of clinical space. Then-Vice President Richard Nixon was treated for a staph infection at Walter Reed in 1960, and former President Dwight Eisenhower died there in 1969 after being hospitalized for nine months with heart issues. HisPresident Lyndon Johnson chats with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Army Hospital on June 11, 1968.The hospital grounds also included somein its National Museum of Health and Medicine. The museum, which traced the history of medicine over the centuries, displayed the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and fragments of Lincoln's skull. It also housed a piece of President James Garfield’s vertebrae. After the hospital's Washington, D.C., site shut down, theThe site of the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda was selected by President Franklin Roosevelt, an amateur architect who even drew a sketch of how he thought the hospital should look. FDR was an amateur architect, drew this 1937 sketch for what is now Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland:
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