Innovations

Since 2003, Bethesda has treated hundreds of Marines and Sailors wounded overseas. In November of 2003, the Honorable Gordon England, Secretary of the Navy, presented a Meritorious Unit Commendation to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center . The award cited the hospital staff for their "outstanding" medical care to injured Sailors and Marines returning from Operation Enduring/Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF).

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The National Naval Dental Center (NNDC) integrated with WRNMMC to enhance quality of care by pooling resources. The Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery clinic is a Specialty Surgery Service within the Medical-Surgical Directorate.

The Naval Postgraduate Dental School augments WRNMMC's Graduate Education & Research programs. Dental primary and selected specialty care are now offered through Military and Family Health.

This exercise, the largest in scope ever at WRNMMC, was the first step in evaluating the concept of Military, Federal, and Private Emergency Preparedness Collaboration.

WRNMMC worked collectively with Suburban Hospital--a community-owned hospital serving Montgomery County, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--a federal institution under the Department of Health and Human Sciences, to decontaminate and treat mock victims of a simulated radiological attack.

MDR is the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 's new approach to treating wounded. All of the hospital's resources are used to treat the patient's total needs for rehabilitation, psychological counseling, and family support instead of only healing the wound and releasing the patient.

On 4 October 2004, RDML Robinson signed a Memorandum of Understanding to initiate the first phase of REALifelines. The Recovery and Employment Assistance Lifelines (REALifelines) initiative is a joint project of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. It will create a seamless, personalized assistance network to ensure that seriously wounded and injured service members who cannot return to active duty are trained for rewarding new careers in the private sector. This comprehensive new program provides individualized job training, counseling and re-employment services to each and every veteran seriously injured or wounded in the War on Terrorism.