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The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) is an agency of the United States Department of the Navy that manages health care activities for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. BUMED operates hospitals and other health care facilities as well as laboratories for
biomedical research Medical research (or biomedical research), also known as experimental medicine, encompasses a wide array of research, extending from " basic research" (also called ''bench science'' or ''bench research''), – involving fundamental scienti ...
, and trains and manages the Navy's many
staff corps A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military ...
related to medicine. Its headquarters is located at the Defense Health Headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia. BUMED has 63,000 medical personnel and more than a million eligible beneficiaries.


History

BUMED was one of the original five Navy bureaus formed in 1842 to replace the
Board of Navy Commissioners The Board of Navy Commissioners was a United States Navy administrative body in existence from 1815 to 1842, with responsibility for the navy's material support. The three-member Board was created as part of an expansion of the U.S. Navy Depart ...
. It is one of two bureaus still in existence. BUMED was headquartered at the Old Naval Observatory from 1942 until 2012. In 2005, Navy Medicine aligned its shore facilities into four overarching commands: Navy Medicine East, Navy Medicine West, Navy Medicine National Capital Area, and Navy Medicine Support Command. In 2012, Navy Medicine Support Command was renamed and realigned into the Navy Medicine Education and Training Command, with its non-training units becoming independent under BUMED. Navy Medicine National Capital Area's largest component, the National Naval Medical Center in
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, was merged in 2011 with
Walter Reed Army Medical Center The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC)known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on in the District of Columbia, it served more than 150,000 active and ret ...
to form the joint Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as a result of the
2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005. It was the fifth Base Realignment and Closure ("BRAC") proposal generated since the process was created in ...
. The merged facility came under the jurisdiction of the new
Joint Task Force National Capital Region/Medical The Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical (JTF CapMed), also known as National Capital Region Medical, is located on the Naval Support Activity Bethesda campus in Bethesda, Maryland and was established by the Deputy Secretary of Defen ...
, and in 2013, Navy Medicine National Capital Area was disestablished, with its few remaining facilities transferred to Navy Medicine East. While a 2006 report of the
Defense Business Board The Defense Business Board was established in 2001 as a complement to broader transformation efforts in the Department of Defense from an overly burdensome bureaucracy to a more streamlined, effective organization. The Board consists of approxim ...
recommended that the Army, Navy, and Air Force medical commands be merged into a single joint command, citing savings in budget and personnel, this recommendation was not carried out and in 2012 the
Defense Health Agency The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated combat support agency that enables the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Space Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to Combatant Com ...
(DHA) was established separately from the military medical commands. All three military medical commands were however all moved to share the new Defense Health Headquarters facility in Falls Church with DHA, again as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure.


Organization


Departments

The commanding officer of BUMED is the
Surgeon General of the United States Navy The surgeon general of the Navy (SGN) is the most senior commissioned officer of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy and is the principal advisor to the United States Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and director of the ...
, a
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. BUMED is divided into ten departments, each referred to with an alphanumerical code. Each of the staff corps is headed by a
rear admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regard ...
, except for the Hospital Corps, which is headed by a
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because of its status as an enlisted rating. The other department heads are mostly either rear admirals or civilians. * M00: Corps Chiefs ** M00C1: Chief, Medical Corps ** M00C2: Chief, Dental Corps ** M00C3: Chief, Nurse Corps ** M00C4: Director, Medical Service Corps ** M00C5: Director, Hospital Corps ** M00C6: Director, Civilian Corps * Deputy Chief, Total Force (DCTF) ** M1: Manpower and Resources ** M7: Education and Training * Deputy Chief, Business Operations (DCBO) ** Fleet Support & Logistics (M4) ** Information Management & Technology (M6) * Deputy Chief, Resource Management/Comptroller (DCRM/C) ** Deputy Director, Financial Management (M8) ** Assistant Deputy Chief, Capabilities Requirements (M9) * Deputy Chief, Operations, Plans & Readiness (OP&R) ** M2: Research and Development ** M3: Health Care Operations ** M5: Patient Safety, Clinical Quality & High Reliability/Office of the Chief Medical Officer (M5)


Subordinate commands

BUMED operates the following facilities and commands: *Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
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Naval Medical Forces Atlantic: * Naval Medical Forces Atlantic,
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** Naval Hospital Beaufort,
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** Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Cuba ** Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida ** Naval Hospital Naples, Naples, Italy **
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, Pensacola, Florida ** Naval Hospital Rota,
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, Spain ** Naval Hospital Sigonella, Sigonella, Italy **
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** Naval Health Clinic Annapolis,
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** Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point,
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** Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi,
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** Naval Health Clinic New England, Newport, Rhode Island ** Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River,
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** Naval Health Clinic Quantico,
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** 2nd Dental Battalion,
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Naval Medical Forces Pacific: * Naval Medical Forces Pacific, San Diego, California ** Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, California **
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** Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton,
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, Lemoore, California ** Naval Hospital Oak Harbor,
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** Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms,
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** Naval Hospital Okinawa,
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** Naval Health Clinic Hawaii,
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** 3rd Dental Battalion,
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Naval Medical Forces Support Command: * Naval Medical Forces Support Command, San Antonio, Texas ** Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,
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** Navy Medicine Training Support Center, San Antonio, Texas ** Navy Medicine Operational Training Center, Pensacola, Florida Other commands: * Naval Medical Research Center,
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** Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California **
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** Naval Medical Research Center Asia, Singapore ** Naval Medical Research Unit 6, Lima, Peru *
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** Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity, Yorktown, Virginia * Navy Medicine Information Systems Support Activity, San Antonio, Texas * Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center,
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** Navy Drug Screening Lab Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida Hospital ships: While the Medical Treatment Facility on each hospital ship is operated by BUMED's medical personnel, the ships themselves are operated by civilian mariners employed by
Military Sealift Command Military Sealift Command (MSC) is an organization that controls the replenishment and military transport ships of the United States Navy. Military Sealift Command has the responsibility for providing sealift and ocean transportation for all US ...
. * USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), San Diego, California * USNS Comfort (T-AH-20), Norfolk, Virginia


See also

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Army Medical Department (United States) The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army (AMEDD), formerly known as the Army Medical Service (AMS), encompasses the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps"). It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the me ...
* United States Air Force Medical Service * United States Public Health Service


References

9. Navy Medicine Leadership. http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=602


External links

* * * {{Authority control 1842 establishments in the United States Medicine and Surgery Medicine in the United States Navy Military medical organizations of the United States Military units and formations established in 1842