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About Walter Reed Health Care System
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"Home of Warrior Care"
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The Walter Reed Health Care System provides comprehensive health care
for more than 150,000 soldiers, other service members, family members and retirees in the National Capital Area. Its hub is Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, the clinical center of gravity of American military medicine.
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The Walter Reed Health Care System (WRHCS) is an integrated health care delivery
system offering military families, in and around Washington, D.C., access to quality,
comprehensive medical care.
WRHCS provides a full range of services for
patients, from routine primary care to the most sophisticated, high-tech specialty
care. It is patient-focused and dedicated to streamlining each patient’s passage to
the appropriate level of care he or she needs. Each facility within the system is a
valuable partner and brings its unique expertise to bear on health care delivery.
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In addition, the system provides professional control,
supervision and support for the DiLorenzo TRICARE
Clinic at the Pentagon.
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Since its inception in 1995, the system has grown in scope and in clinical
integration to promote ease of access, a high level of continuity between
primary and specialty care, and a special emphasis on measuring and
improving the outcomes of care for patients with complex and high-risk
disease states, putting patients at the center of key decisions about
their care. Since 2000, this outcomes initiative, HEALTHeFORCES, has
measurably improved the wellness and daily lives of patients with such
conditions as diabetes, high blood pressure, and chronic pulmonary disease.
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The system’s staff of 6,000 includes more than 600 Army physicians.
Half of them are in training in more than 40 graduate medical specialty
programs. Walter Reed trains the majority of the Army’s physician
subspecialists. In addition, it conducts training for many nursing
and enlisted medical specialties. Its status as a worldwide referral
center for patients with the most complex and challenging illnesses
supports the high quality of its educational missions, and sustains
the capabilities of its clinical staff.
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The Walter Reed Health Care System is also the Army’s leading center
of clinical research and innovation, attracting annual research support
for such efforts as prostate disease research, coronary artery disease
reversal, comprehensive breast care, therapy of traumatic brain injury,
amputee care and limb salvage, advanced diabetes management, technical
advances in robotic surgery, nursing care delivery, evaluation of
balance disorders, telemedicine, treatment of chronic viral hepatitis,
and many other programs.
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