Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
/ˌwɔːltə riːd ˌnæʃnəl ˌmɪlətri ˈmedɪkl sentə(r)/
/ˌwɔːltər riːd ˌnæʃnəl ˌmɪləteri ˈmedɪkl sentər/
- a large hospital and medical centre near Washington, DC, that provides medical care for members of the US armed forces and their families. The US President often goes there for medical checks. The Center, which also does research, opened as an army hospital in 1909 and is named after Major Walter Reed (1851-1902), a US Army doctor who discovered that mosquitoes carry the tropical disease yellow fever.
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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center