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Patient Care, Health Care Military physicians who are nationally recognized for their skill, training and experience lead Walter Reed's departments and services. The medical center is accredited by the Joint Commission, College of American Pathologists, and American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists. It is an institutional member of the American Hospital Association. Walter Reed is a gateway to the world for medical care. Heads of state and senior government officials of the United States and many foreign nations are among our patients. Every aspect of the hospital's day-to-day operations has been designed with the patient's welfare and comfort in mind, from centralized nursing units to the fully landscaped courtyards on the upper floors. Teams of registered nurses and paraprofessionals provide each patient with individual attention from admission to discharge. Levels of care at the medical center range from surgical, medical, and pediatric intensive care units; through acute-care wards and rehabilitation units; to ambulatory surgery and a short-stay ward for patients who need less than 24 hours of hospitalization. In Walter Reed's operating rooms, surgical teams perform about 1,000 operations each month, from routine same-day cases to open-heart surgery, organ transplants, total joint replacements, and artery and vein repairs. The hospital's own central pharmacy provides outpatient and inpatient medications with each dose prepared, packaged and labeled separately. The pharmacy fills approximately 2,000 prescriptions a day. Most outpatient clinics are conveniently located on the first three floors of the medical center, near the 1,000-car underground parking garage. Operating rooms, anesthesia services and intensive-care units are on the fourth floor, while other wards and some specialty clinics are on the fifth through seventh floors. Walter Reed's clinics provide treatment for active-duty servicemembers, Family members, retirees and their Family members. “Home of Warior Care and So Much More” 11
Clinical Departments and Services Department of Allergy and Immunology The Allergy-Immunology Department includes five services and a Department of Defense/Centers for Disease Control Center of Excellence: • The Allergy, Asthma and Immunization Clinical Service evaluates and treats patients of all ages with allergic and immunologic disorders, and provides adult immunization services and travel immunization for all ages. • Allergy-Immunology Fellowship Training Program. • Clinical Laboratory Immunology Fellowship Training Program. • The Tri-service U.S. Army Centralized Allergen Extract Laboratory provides allergen extract vaccines for allergic patients worldwide. The lab's nationally recognized aerobiological sampling center prepares pollen and mold spore reports for local and national surveillance surveys and media networks. • The Tri-service Immunization-Allergy Technician Course provides enlisted medics and nurses from all branches of the Department of Defense with comprehensive training in immunization and allergy specialty treatment and patient care. • The Vaccine Healthcare Center Network, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Immunization Program, develops comprehensive clinical services for vaccine safety surveillance, improved reporting of vaccine adverse events, and immunization health care. It also develops and implements educational outreach and continuous performance improvement programs. Department of Medicine Cardiology Service The Cardiology Service provides diagnostic and therapeutic services to infants, children and adults with suspected and known heart disease. The Cardiology Clinic also performs electrocardiograms, treadmill tests, echocardiograms, Doppler studies and other diagnostic procedures. The Coronary Care Unit has the most modern monitoring systems available. It treats cardiac inpatients, while the Cardiac Short-Stay Observation Clinic manages the care of recovery patients who undergo outpatient procedures. Three computerized, digital cardiac catheterization laboratories diagnose cardiac disease at all age levels. The most fre- 12 “Home of Warior Care and So Much More”
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