Talk:Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Merger proposal

 * Merge The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is not a new complex on new ground, completely bereft of history. Just as the history of Walter Reed Hospital was merged into the article on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, so too should the history of the NNMC be merged into the article on the WRNMMC.  As it stands, the flagship medical center of the DoD has a shorter article than the two medical centers it replaced. And since, like WRH becoming WRAMC, this is a substantially similar complex on the same geographical footprint, it makes sense to combine.  Σ Α Π Φ (Sapph) Talk 17:46, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge for reason's stated above. --Daysleeper47 (talk) 20:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I was bold, and did it. I also upgraded the article assessment from stub to start, in accordance with the merged article.  Σ Α Π Φ (Sapph) Talk 18:40, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Well played! --Daysleeper47 (talk) 20:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Erich Traub and project CHATTER
Erich Traub and project CHATTER connect to this page by virtue of Government Contracted Work Performed on behalf of the entity that existed prior to the renaming of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and apparent sanitizing of American History concerning chemical and biological warfare programs conducted at the previous entity called Naval Medical Research Institute. Individuals deleting these connections appear to have biased motives and delete their history footprints from the view history page. If the deletes continue, this page will be flagged as biased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.65.122.152 (talk) 20:06, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Article additions
It looks like a large chunk from another Wikipedia article was attempted to be added onto this page, however this was not performed correctly; it appears as though someone copy-pasted text from directly en.wikipedia.org instead of grabbing the wiki source. I have undone this edit for now. Jw12321 (talk) 17:08, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Anyone know where the METU Suite is?
Just wondering if anyone knew which building/facility housed the Medical Evaluation and Treatment Unit (METU), which assess Presidents, VPs, and their families.

In the book "The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents: A Memoir, Mariano writes that "THe METU suite is a private ward located in the heart of Bethesda Naval Hospital's historic tower".

Which I assume means the Bethesda Naval Hospital Tower.

Can anyone confirm that? Thanks! PvOberstein (talk) 16:00, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Mention funding sources
It is a tax-payer funded hospital - through military? and through veteran benefits - taxpayer funded, like the rest of the world has. Funding sources should be mentioned.

Recover lost parts of article on history of naval center?
Material that could be of interest to some readers, especially those interested in the history of these institutions, was deleted in 2017 for reasons that are not clear, and may be invalid. In particular, on 26 Sep 2017 an IP that to date has only contributed 4 edits to Wikipedia deleted a historical list of medical officers in command of the naval center, which was last clearly visible in the article version of 17 September 2017. This earlier version could be a resource for building up the skimpy parts of this article on the history of the naval center; or perhaps it should simply be restored (that's the easiest thing to do). The skimpiness of these sections on history of the naval center stands in contrast to the existence of a stand-alone article on the army center that has much historical material. Right now, Wikipedia's coverage is unbalanced between the history of the naval center, and the history of the army center. --Presearch (talk) 01:13, 29 December 2020 (UTC)