It is the only Armed Forces Medical Services hospital to be commanded by a Lieutenant General rank officer and provides for 27 sub-specialties.
[3] In an interview in 2018, Lt. General U.K. Sharma, commandant of Army Hospital (R&R) said that, "We treat SAARC nation’s armed forces’ patients here too.
[4] The assisted reproductive technology facility at the hospital undertook 500 test tube pregnancies in 2012 itself.
[7] Brigadier YP Bakshi was shot in Meerut; following his death, RR Hospital harvested his organs, liver, kidneys, eyes and heart valves.
[8] Patients have included Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw,[9] Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman,[10] and Sonia Gandhi.
[11] Notable people who have died at the hospital include: former President Pranab Mukherjee;[12] Marshal Arjan Singh, the only five-star rank officer of the Indian Air Force;[13] former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar;[14] Lt. General Sagat Singh;[15] and Colonel Narendra "Bull" Kumar.