Talk:List of former United States Army medical units

Unit Redesignations
I have been struggling with how to handle redesignations. Since I'm about the only person to do much on this page in the last 9 years, I'm establishing the following rules:

The change in a parenthetical won't be documented. So, for example, the redesignation of the 261st Medical Battalion (Area Support) to teh 261st Medical Battalion (Multifunctional) wouldn't merit an entry. Nor would the conversion of an Evacuation Hospital to an Evacuation Hospital (Semimobile)

A reorganization and redesignation would, however.

So to use the 1st Medical Brigade (United States) as an example, it would merit entries when:
 * It was reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Medical Regiment
 * It was reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Medical Group
 * It was inactivated in 1945
 * It was inactivated in 1963
 * It was reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Medical Brigade

But I'm open to suggestions

Don.H.40 (talk) 01:57, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Purpose of this List?
It seems to me that this list could be essentially endless. At what level does it stop? Hospital/Battalion? Company? Detachment? Do certain Detachments count, but not others? You can probably see where I'm going with this.

Don.H.40 (talk) 01:57, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

United States Army Auxiliary Hospital No. 1 placement.
I am not sure where United States Army Auxiliary Hospital No. 1 (Rockefeller War Demonstration Hospital) should be placed on this list. The designation of "Auxiliary Hospital" seems unique to this WWI era hospital. --HugoHelp (talk) 17:03, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Let me do a little research on it. They may have given it another name during the war that wasn't picked up on by the writer of the other article. Don.H.40 (talk) 19:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

The Army's World War I Order of Battle lists it as Auxiliary Hospital No. 1. But tehy only treated 279 patients while it was open. So I'm going to created a separate section (I may already have) on misc units and stick it there, rather than create a separate category for auxiliary hospitals. Don.H.40 (talk) 21:52, 20 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you! --HugoHelp (talk) 22:55, 20 February 2021 (UTC)