Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Topping Out Ceremony November 3, 2011

Topping Out Marks another Milestone for the New Naval Hospital

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- History was written aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Nov 3, 2011. A Topping Out ceremony was held at 12:30 p.m. at the new Naval Hospital Replacement Project site to erect the last beam on the hospital structure. More than 4,000 tons of steel has been placed to support the 500,000 square-foot Naval Hospital. This celebration was a huge milestone that has clocked in 250,000 work hours with zero lost-time incidents and is currently one month ahead of schedule. The largest Recovery Act Project in the Navy has a budget of $394 million that will provide state of the art hospital equipment and services for Sailors, Marines, family members, and veterans.

The replacement of Camp Pendleton's 37-year-old naval hospital is part of the ARRA program to improve military health care, create jobs, and establish modern standards of energy efficiency. Along with the facility, evidence-based design features and proven best practices for treating patients will improve patient care major advancement is a care delivery model based around outpatient clinic capacity and efficiency, Also incorporated into this model are enhanced family practice and ancillary services (lab, pharmacy, radiology), as well as inpatient, and same-day surgery functions.

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Terrific!