FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: National Naval Medical Center, Maryland ~ 16 AUG 2011

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

 

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Road Trip: National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland

The National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Maryland has for decades been the flagship of the United States Navy's system of medical centers. NNMC’s primary mission is to assure the readiness and care of the Uniformed Services and their families. A federal institution, it conducts medical and dental research as well as providing health care for American leaders, including the president and his family. Beneficiaries include current and retired service members from all military services.

In 1938, the United States Congress appropriated funds for the acquisition of land for the construction of a new Naval medical center, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt selected the present site in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 5, 1938.

Ground was broken by John McShain Builders for the Naval Medical Center on June 29, 1939 by Rear Admiral Percival S. Rossiter, MC, USN, (Ret.). President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Tower on Armistice Day, November 11, 1940.

The original Medical Center was composed of the Naval Hospital, designed to hold 1,200 beds, and the Naval Medical School, the Naval Dental School (now the National Naval Dental Center) and the Naval Medical Research Institute. In 1945, at the end of World War II, temporary buildings were added to accommodate up to 2,464 wounded American Sailors and Marines.

NNMC is the Navy's third-largest health care delivery system and provides more than 12,500 ambulatory surgeries and almost 8,000 inpatient admissions each year.

The National Naval Medical Center is one of the nation’s largest and most renowned military medical centers, best known for its history of providing care to war heroes and presidents alike for the past 65 years. People come here to heal, to stay healthy, to help others, to teach the next generation, to practice quality medicine, and take part in cutting-edge clinical research.

In August 1960, a $5.6 million expansion project was initiated and consisted of two five-story wings attached to the main building's east side. Completed in the summer of 1963, Buildings 7 and 8 provided space for 258 beds and replaced the World War II temporary ward buildings.

In January 1973, the mission of the Naval Medical Center was modified to include the provision: "to provide coordinated dispensary health care services as an integral element of the Naval Regional Health Care System, including shore activities, as may be assigned." This change established the National Naval Medical Center Region and placed all naval health care facilities within the Naval District Washington under the authority of the commanding officer of the Medical Center.

The new inpatient buildings and the Naval Medical Center were consolidated into one command on September 1, 1973 to form National Naval Medical Center. In 1975, an extensive renovation began which included the construction of two new buildings: Building 9, a three-story outpatient structure, and Building 10, a seven-story, 500 bed inpatient facility, with a combined area of more than 880,000 square feet.

Since 2003, NNMC has treated more than 1,600 war wounded service members, including Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force personnel. NNMC is the designated hospital for Navy and Marine casualties returning to the continental United States from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).

Additionally, NNMC is the only Defense Department facility capable of comprehensive complex neurocritical care for wartime Traumatic Brain Injury patients.

Learn More About National Naval Medical Center HERE!!

The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) mandate stated that by September 15, 2011, the services currently provided at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) would relocate to the current National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) location in Bethesda, MD. The joining of these two longstanding centerpieces of military, world class health care will be named the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda.

Groundbreaking took place on July 3, 2008 with President George W. Bush officiating.

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[ConorMacNessa]

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[laurenmarlowe]

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[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Lauren!

[laurenmarlowe]

Permission Granted ConorMacNessa!

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Hope, and thank you for our Pledge Of Allegiance!

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[Hoodat]

God bless our troops, and God bless the United States of America.

[laurenmarlowe]

Aloha BIGLOOK!

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[laurenmarlowe]

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[ColdOne]

Hello from Idaho!

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[SandRat]

HiYa

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you ColdOne!

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks very much, Lauren!

*HUGS*

And thanks very much for tonight's Road Trip to NNMC Bethesda! It's a command that resonates soundly with me. My father was stationed there from 1956 until 1963 and again from 1965 until his retirement from the Navy in 1969. I was a patient there three times, once in 1968 and again in 1969 and 1971. I was stationed there in 1970 and 1971. I used to stand the Chief of the Day watch at Center Command and got to raise and lower the Colors.

Again, thanks very much!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hey there SandRat! Congratulations to your famliy on the new arrival!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: National Naval Medical Center, Maryland ~

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[ColdOne]

Good evening to you and yours as well!

[SandRat]

Thank you. Now for him to clear the final goals to go home ... hope soon.

[laurenmarlowe]

My honor and pleasure ConorMacNessa, such an outstanding institution to get to learn more about. I appreciate your suggestion!

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Do It Yourself
August 16, 2011

You give them something to eat” (Mark 6:37). It’s easy to miss those words from Jesus. A huge crowd had gathered to hear Him. Late in the day, the disciples got nervous and started pressing Him to send them away (v.36). “You give them something to eat,” Jesus replied (v.37).

Why would He say that? John 6:6 says He was testing them. Did He want to see if they would trust Him to perform a miracle? Maybe, but it seems more likely He wanted His disciples involved in caring for the crowd, to be hands-on in working with and for Him. He then blessed what they brought to Him—five loaves of bread and two fish—and performed the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000.

I think Jesus uses those words with us too. A need pre-sents itself in the lives of those around us, and we bring it to Jesus in prayer. “You do something,” Jesus often says. “But, Lord,” we object, “we don’t have enough time or money or energy.” We’re wrong, of course. When Jesus asks us to get involved, He already knows how He will accomplish His work through us.

What we need is faith and vision—the ability to see that God wants us to be His instruments, and that He will supply what we need.

God uses us as instruments
To help someone in need,
So we must trust Him to supply
When following His lead. —Sper

When God says do it, He’s already planned the resources we need to accomplish the task.

Read: Mark 6:30-44

[Jesus] answered and said to them, “You give them something to eat.” —Mark 6:37

Bible in a year:
Psalms 94-96; Romans 15:14-33