Military physicians who are nationally recognized for their skill, training and experience lead Walter Reed’s departments and services. The medical center is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, College of American Pathologists, and American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists. It is an institutional member of the American Hospital Association.

Walter Reed is a gateway to the world for medical care. Heads of state and senior government officials of the United States and many foreign nations are among our patients.

Every aspect of the hospital’s day-to-day operations has been designed with the patient’s welfare and comfort in mind, from centralized nursing units to the fully landscaped courtyards on the upper floors. Teams of registered nurses and paraprofessionals provide each patient with individual attention from admission to discharge.

Levels of care at the medical center range from surgical, medical, and pediatric intensive care units; through acute-care wards and rehabilitation units; to ambulatory surgery and a short-stay ward for patients who need less than 24 hours of hospitalization.

In Walter Reed’s 16 operating rooms, surgical teams perform about 650 operations each month, from routine same-day cases to open-heart surgery, organ transplants, total joint replacements, and artery and vein repairs.

The hospital’s own central pharmacy provides outpatient and inpatient medications with each dose prepared, packaged and labeled separately. The pharmacy fills approximately 2,000 prescriptions a day.

Most outpatient clinics are conveniently located on the first three floors of the medical center, near the 1000-car underground parking garage. Operating rooms, anesthesia services and intensive-care units are on the fourth floor, while other wards and some specialty clinics are on the fifth through seventh floors.

Walter Reed’s clinics provide treatment for active-dutyservice members, family members, retirees and their familymembers.