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As Vice President of the DAR (who also served as NSDAR's first Librarian General), Dr. McGee founded the DAR Hospital Corps to vet applicants for nursing positions. The DAR Hospital Corps certified 1,081 nurses for service during the Spanish–American War.
As a result of 2005 BRAC legislation that required the bulk of enlisted technical medical training in the Army, Air Force, and Navy to be collocated to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, much of the enlisted medical training was moved from AHS to the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC). [2] The transition took place during 2010 and 2011.
The largest strength of the Corps occurred during the Spanish–American War; in June 1898 it contained 133 hospital stewards, 172 acting hospital stewards and 2,940 privates. The peak was reached in November the same year with about 6,000 men serving in the Corps, although about 22,500 were needed.
This is a list of hospitals in the Houston area sorted by name. There are more than 80 hospitals in Harris County and more than 125 in the Greater Houston area. [ 1 ]
1938 - new Station Hospital opens with a 418-bed capacity; 1941 to 1945 - Station Hospital expands by converting barracks to hospital wards; 1942 - Station Hospital named Brooke General Hospital; 1942 - psychiatric ward built in Old Station Hospital area; 1945 - 15th Field Artillery Barracks become Annex IV, increasing capacity to 7,800 beds
Ben Taub General Hospital, part of the Harris Health System, Level 1 trauma hospital affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Houston Methodist Hospital, affiliated with Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College; John Sealy Hospital, Level 1 trauma center affiliated with UTMB at Galveston [1] [2]
The Army Nurse Corps originated in 1901, the Dental Corps began in 1911, the Veterinary Corps in 1916, the Medical Service Corps emerged in 1917 (during WW I the Sanitary Corps was created as a temporary organization to relieve U.S. Army physicians from a variety of duties), [3] and the Army Medical Specialist Corps came into existence in 1947. [4]
In 1918, Houston philanthropist Joseph S. Cullinan established a fund to erect a fifty-bed hospital. Later, Texas oilman J. S. Cullinan, donated $80,000 to build the Hospital and the City of Houston donated the land. [2] The Spanish Colonial Revival style building began construction in 1925 and the school was officially opened in 1927.