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Cutler Army Community Hospital

Cutler Army Community Hospital (CACH) was a former U.S. Army hospital located on the now-closed Fort Devens, Massachusetts from 1971 to approximately 1996; on its former site now sits Federal Medical Center, Devens. The land for this part of the former installation came from the town of Harvard, Massachusetts and would be included in the proposed town of Devens, Massachusetts, should it become the 352nd municipality in Massachusetts.

CACH was named in honor of BG Elliott C. Cutler, a native of Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts. BG Cutler (then a major) had been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I for "exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services as Director of Surgical Teams…" In World War II, he was instrumental in the initiation of daily blood shipments across the Atlantic to the ETO beginning in 1944.

Replacing the various sites of Lovell General Hospital at Fort Devens, CACH was announced on July 25, 1969 by the commanding general of Fort Devens at the time, BG John H. Cushman; the 116-bed hospital was scheduled to open in 1971.