Work starts on $747M military hospital
FACILITY TO REPLACE 50-YEAR-OLD DEWITT ARMY HOSPITAL IN FORT BELVOIR, VA.
By Dan Emerson
Construction has started on a 120-bed, $747 million military hospital at Fort Belvoir in southeast Fairfax County,Va.The project is part of an ongoing realignment of U.S. military health facilities.
The military hospital is slated to open in spring 2011 as a replacement for the 50-year-old, 45-bed DeWitt Army Community Hospital, which is also in Fort Belvoir.
The six-level, 1.2 million square foot hospital will allow the Army to gradually close Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington, D.C., while transferring its resources to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. As part of the plan, about 20,000 military employees will be moved to the Fort Belvoir area.
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