[1] There are also numerous medical research centers in the Washington area, most notably the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Children's is among the highest ranked pediatric hospitals in the country according to U.S. News & World Report[2] and also provides care at 23 regional outpatient centers throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Due to a new Department of Defense base realignment plan, Walter Reed is scheduled to move in 2011 to a facility in Bethesda, Maryland near the National Naval Medical Center.
The George Washington University Medical Center treated President Reagan in 1981 after a failed assassination attempt; the hospital's emergency department is named in his honor.
The District of Columbia General Hospital near Capitol Hill was the city's only public health care facility.