PANEL: PLANS FOR NEW WALTER REED FALL SHORT -- BY KELLY KENNEDY, Army Times

As construction proceeds briskly on the $2.4 billion “world-class” hospital Congress approved to replace Washington, D.C.’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a watchdog panel’s review of the project cites serious shortcomings in the planned facilities.

The new 354-bed Walter Reed National Medical Center is slated to open in September 2011, several months ahead of schedule, at the campus of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Under base


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