Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda, in Bethesda, Maryland, is one of the largest United States facilities for medical care, research, and training. It is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northwest of Washington, D.C. The center includes a hospital, medical and dental schools, and a school of hospital administration. Originally called the National Naval Medical Center, it opened in 1942. In 2011, federal officials closed the nearby Walter Reed Army Medical Center. They moved most of that center’s services to the National Naval Medical Center and renamed it. The center is named for Major Walter Reed, an Army surgeon who helped show how to control typhoid fever and yellow fever (see Reed, Walter ).
