The new 345,000-square foot facility will enhance the 79th Medical Wing's ability to provide world-class medical services to the nation's wounded warriors and the area's service members, retirees and their families who are part of the National Capital Region (NCR) healthcare network.
The mission of MGMCSC has shifted from an inpatient focus to ambulatory care, diagnostic, surgical and therapeutic services. MGMCSC is part of an integrated military medical center without walls. You will find Air Force medics everywhere you go in the NCR. The new facility will have state of the art operating room capability, very similar to those you find at Walter Reed and Fort Belvoir. And actually by design very similar so that their surgeons can operate here just as ours go up there now.
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