Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center
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The Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center is a United States Department of Defense medical facility located on Fort Belvoir, Virginia, outside of Washington D.C. In conjunction with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the hospital provides the Military Health System medical capabilities of the National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR MD), a joint unit providing comprehensive care to members of the United States Armed Forces located in the capital area, and their families.
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Location | 9300 Dewitt Loop, Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°42′19.194″N 77°8′33.328″W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Care system | Tricare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funding | Government hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type | Military hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Affiliated university | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emergency department | Level III trauma center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beds | 120 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Helipad | IATA: VG93[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former name(s) | Fort Belvoir Community Hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Construction started | November 9, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | August 31, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-08-31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | belvoirhospital | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lists | Hospitals in Virginia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Previously known as the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, the facility is located on an Army installation, but operates as one of the first joint service medical facilities in the U.S. military, staffed with uniformed medical personnel from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The hospital is one of the largest in Northern Virginia, and provides all levels of inpatient and outpatient medical care. The facility maintains a 24-hour emergency department and level III trauma center, but, like most U.S. military hospitals, transfers patients in need of higher care to equipped civilian medical facilities. As part of federal emergency planning in the National Capitol Region, the hospital is also tasked with maintaining unique capabilities to support continuity of government in the event of crisis.[2]
The $1.03 billion, 1.3 million-square-foot facility opened in August 2011, replacing Fort Belvoir's existing medical facility, DeWitt Army Community Hospital, and integrating nearly half of the workforce of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in accordance with 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act. In addition to its primary facility at Fort Belvoir, the hospital also operates the DiLorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic (DTHC) at the Pentagon and satellite health centers in Fairfax and Dumfries, Virginia.[3]