List of former United States Army medical units

The following is a list of former (deactivated or decommissioned) U.S. Army medical units – both fixed and deployable – with date when last active.

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Mower Army General Hospital, Philadelphia, in an 1863 lithograph. Note passenger train in foreground.

Named Hospitals

Civil War era

Note: an asterisk (*) denotes a civilian hospital temporarily commandeered by the Union Army.

  • Baxter General Hospital, Burlington, VT (1865)
  • Brown General Hospital
  • Freedman's Hospital
  • MacDougall Hospital
  • Mower Hospital (1865)
  • Satterlee Hospital (1865)
  • Sloan General Hospital, Montpelier, VT (1865)
  • Smith General Hospital, Brattleboro, VT (1865)
  • Indianapolis City Hospital*
  • Yale – New Haven Hospital* (as the "Knight United States Army General Hospital")
  • York United States Army Hospital

Spanish American War

World War I

World War II

Later

Deployable hospitals

Civil War

Numbered General Hospitals

World War I

  • U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1, Williamsbridge, New York City[2] (This location, Columbia Oval, is now within the Norwood, not Williamsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx.) This hospital was previously Columbia University's Columbia War Hospital.
  • Mobile Hospital No. 4, France (ca. 1917-18; served in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive).
  • Mobile Hospital No. 6, France (ca. 1917-18; served in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive).
  • 115th Field Hospital US Army (Activated 28 December 1917)

World War II

  • 4th General Hospital (1945), deployed to Australia, New Guinea, Philippines.
  • 5th General Hospital (~1990?, Bad Cannstatt, Germany)
  • 39th General Hospital (1943-1944), Auckland, New Zealand. Later Cornwall Hospital
  • 55th General Hospital (1945) Formed 1943 at Ft Smith, AR. Deployed to England and France.
  • 114th General Hospital (1943-1944), deployed in Kidderminster, England.
  • 118th General Hospital (1945)
  • 203rd General Hospital (1945), deployed to England, Normandy, Paris.

Portable Surgical Hospitals

Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals
  • 3rd Mobile Army Surgical Hospital - Bien Hoa, Republic of Vietnam, 1966. Converted to 3rd MUST (Medical Unit, Self Contained, Transportable) for service in the Mekong Delta, at MeTho RSV, 1967. Originally placed under the 1st Logistics Command, it was later flagged under the 44th Medical Brigade (Late 1966?)[3]
  • 4th MASH Anniston Alabama 1974
  • 5th MASH, Fort Bragg, NC (1982 ~1997) Converted from 5th Combat Support Hospital (MUST) to 5th MASH in 1982.
  • 116th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Delaware Army National Guard, Wilmington,DE
  • 135th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Missouri Army National Guard, Kansas City (1995)
  • 159th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Louisiana Army National Guard, New Orleans
  • 8076th MASH
  • 131st MASH, Temple Terrace, FL (FLARNG)

Field Hospitals
  • 74th Field Hospital Bronx, New York / Orangeburg, New York (US Army Reserve) (First USAR Hospital mobilized for service in Vietnam)
  • 42nd Field Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky
  • 47th Field Hospital, Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Combat Support Hospitals
  • 46th Combat Support Hospital Fort Devens, Massachusetts (-1994)
  • 67th Combat Support Hospital (2007)
  • 85th Combat Support Hospital (1974–76)
  • 331st Combat Support Hospital Utica, New York (US Army Reserve)
  • 339th Combat Support Hospital Pittsburgh, PA (2011) (US Army Reserve)
  • 344th Combat Support Hospital Fort Totten, New York (US Army Reserve)

324th Combat Support Hospital--WHERE is it?? 16th Combat Support Hospital, Ft Riley, KS

Evacuation Hospitals

World War I

  • Evacuation Hospital No. 15, later 115th Field Hospital (activated 28 December 1917)

World War II

Later

In 1990 the United States Army Reserve also maintained Table of Distribution and Allowances (TDA) hospitals that were designed to augment 'existing Army hospitals' in the .[4] At that time they included the 5th Army Hospital, Bad Cannstatt;[5] 24 such hospitals were in the Continental United States, including the 1125th (Devens); 1207th (Benning); 1208th U.S. Army Hospital (Fort Monmouth); 2289th Army Hospital (Fort Dix); 2290th at Walter Reed; 2291st at Fort Lee; 3270th at Fort Jackson; 3271st at Fort Stewart; 3273rd at Fort Campbell; 3274th at Fort Bragg; 3297th at Fort Gordon; 3343rd at Redstone Arsenal; 3344th at Fort Rucker; 3345th at Fort McClellan; 4005th at Fort Hood; 4010th, 5010th; 5501st; 5502nd; 5503rd; 6250th; 6251st; 6252nd at Fort Ord; and 6253rd Army Hospital at Fort Carson.

In the thirty years since 1990 some of these hospitals have been closed. The remaining ones are part of the Area Readiness Support Groups of Army Reserve Medical Command.

Medical research units

Higher medical headquarters
  • 7th Medical Command - with its activation on 21 September, 1978, the 7th Medical Command became the first and only unit of its type in the U.S. Army. The 7th Medical Command was to be prepared to provide medical support to U.S. Army Forces in the United States European Command area of responsibility in the event of war and to provide peacetime health care services within the theater.
  • 9th Hospital Center
  • 31st Medical Group
  • 32d Hospital Center
  • 43rd Medical Group (1970)
  • 55th Medical Group (2010)
  • 67th Medical Group
  • 68th Medical Group
  • 133rd Medical Group
  • 133rd Medical Group

Other units

44th Pathology, Ft, Bragg, NC was a small nine person and mobile unit that reported to the 28th Combat Support Hospital, 44th Medical Brigade. It is unknown when the unit was fielded and stood up. Records from the Fort Bragg Installation Historical Office reveal that the unit sent equipment to other units during OIF. The unit was entirely part of the Professional Filler System (PROFIS) with no organic personnel. All of the equipment was signed by the HHD, 28th CSH Commander. The unit was deactivated on 01OCT2018. The 44th Pathology was designed to deploy and augment other medical units such as a Combat Support Hospital, Forward Surgical Team, Area Support Medical Company, or Battalion Aid Station. Also the unit could assist with DSCA operations if a stateside emergency warranted the presence of a pathology lab.

References
  1. "Wakeman General & Convalescent Hospital". www.indianamilitary.org. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  2. "Office of Medical History SECTION V OTHER GENERAL HOSPITALS CHAPTER XXV ARMY AND NAVY GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENERAL HOSPITAL, FORT BAYARD; LETTERMAN GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENERAL HOSPITALS, NOS. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, AND 8". history.amedd.army.mil. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  3. http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/msgfisher/3surg-1.htm and personal experience of Larry Sabin, Surgical Technician 3rd MASH 1966-67.
  4. Dinackus, Thomas D. (2000). Order of Battle: Allied Ground Forces of Operation Desert Storm. Central Point, Oregon: Hellgate Press. p. 10-7. ISBN 1-55571-493-5.
  5. https://www.usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm?https&&&www.usarmygermany.com/Units/Medical/USAREUR_USAHBadCannstatt.htm
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