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A view of the former Great Lakes Naval Hospital during demolition in 2013. On 9 December 1960, Great Lakes Naval Hospital (building 200H) was dedicated replacing the original hospital, building 1H. During the Vietnam War, the hospital cared for over 11,000 patients at the 478,000 sq ft (44,400 m 2 ), 825 bed facility. [ 14 ]
The Marine Hospital Fund was founded in 1798; [1] it was reorganized into the Marine Hospital Service in 1871 and renamed the U.S. Public Health Service in 1912. The hospital system became part of the Public Health Service's Bureau of Medical Services when it was created in 1943. The number of major hospitals peaked at thirty in 1943, and ...
The Great Lakes A-School closed after the last class graduated on July 28, 2011. Its last class was Class 11-125. The school relocated – along with the newly commissioned Naval Medicine Training Center command – to the Medical Education and Training Campus at Fort Sam Houston, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. [1]
Naval Base Cavite, Luzon - Main Base, hospital, submarine base, Closed 1971 Naval Station Sangley Point , Sangley Point, seaplane base, 5,000-foot runway Naval Base Manila in Manila , hospital, seaplane base, Depot, HQ 7th Fleet, sub base
NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH UNIT NO. 4, GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS- TWENTY-FIVE YEARS 1946-1971. Naval Medical Research Unit Four (NAMRU-4) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was commissioned 31 May 1946 at the Naval Hospital in Dublin, Georgia as the Mcintire Research Unit for Rheumatic Fever, which was named for the Surgeon General of the United States Navy Ross T. Mcintire.
It is a tenant command of Naval Station Great Lakes in the city of North Chicago, Illinois, in Lake County, north of Chicago. Called "The Quarterdeck of the Navy" since it opened in July 1911, RTC Great Lakes has been the service's only enlisted basic training location since 1994, when the Recruit Training Command in Orlando, Florida , was ...
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The naval hospital was established as a 500-bed hospital to care for the center's operating staff, recruits, students, and dependents, with provision to increase capacity to 1,000 beds or more. Some care was provided by the roughly 1,200 students studying to become Hospital Corpsmen at the Hospital Corps School.