13:11 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe US Army’s flagship hospital in Washington, which has treated presidents and servicemen for more than a century, is closing.<\/p>\n
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center will move to a new location in the state of Maryland in August.<\/p>\n
A closing ceremony has been held at the facility, where hundreds of thousands of US troops have received treatment.<\/p>\n
The shutting of Walter Reed, which opened in 1909, had been planned since 2005 as a cost-cutting measure.<\/p>\n
The 80-bed hospital was the subject of a 2007 scandal about substandard living conditions for wounded troops in outpatient care, which ultimately led to improved care.<\/p>\n
Patients and staff members celebrated the hospital’s history at a ceremony on Wednesday on the parade grounds in front of the facility, which has accommodated troops who served in conflicts from World War I to the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
The Army will hand over the red-brick building, located six miles (10km) from the White House, to the state department and the District of Columbia on 15 September.<\/p>\n
In 2005, a government commission voted to close the hospital and consolidate its operations with the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and a hospital in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in order to save money.<\/p>\n
A host of presidents and US commanders have died at the facility over the past century, including President Dwight D Eisenhower, Gen Jon J Pershing and Douglas MacArthur.<\/p>\n
The new facility in Maryland will be called the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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