By the Numbers: Walter Reed's Replacements

PLANS TO CONSOLIDATE the Washington area's military medical facilities were drawn up before the scandal over conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, documented by The Washington Post, forced officials to take a hard look at the kind of care wounded veterans received when they returned to the States.

Accordingly, plans to shift and consolidate Walter Reed's facilities to new hospital centers in Bethesda and Fort Belvoir in Virginia have been upgraded to deal with the realities of a long-term war, as The Post's Steve Vogel reports.

Let's take a look at the new plans, by the numbers ...

» $2 billion: The number of dollars the Defense Department is spending on the new facilities in Bethesda and Fort Belvoir that will replace the current Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the District.
» 71: The percentage increase in cost to that the effort to close Walter Reed and redeploy its services has seen since initial 2005 projections from the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
» 120: The number of beds at the new Army hospital planned for Fort Belvoir.

» 345: The number of beds planned for the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, which will be the Defense Department's premier medical facility.
» $50 million: The minimum projected cost of the new Walter Reed's 50,000-square-foot traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder center.
» $900 million: The amount expected to be spent on the new 1.2 million-square-foot Army hospital at Fort Belvoir. The hospital will have 10 operating rooms, plus a cancer center and diagnostic centers.

» "Military Hospitals Meet New Realities" [WaPo]
» EARLIER: "Water Reed and Beyond" [WaPo]