When we built it was cited such that it looked out over Mount Rainier or the Olympic Peninsula and instantaneous effect on patients you created sense patient and family cantered care and a patient-friendly waiting areas including spaces the impact wallet light and fresh air and even the selection of photographs artistic photographs we had really was instantaneous patience I swami patience sought in my patients faces I heard voices families and eyewitness renewed energy versus we really had little difficulty following opening that building attracting trainees into my department and we used it is a major recruiting tool for Army medicine continue to this day the three services in the Trio care management agency it worked hard to develop an objective process for prioritizing medical milk on requirements through this capital investment decision model I won't go into in like you've heard about it from my colleagues but its criteria focus on supporting.
all of our knees simultaneously and also targets the harder part healthcare looking at the need for functional modernization and customers customer and patients cantered care our productivity and how users space in 2008 we in the army participate in the development of the first version of this bird is Asian model and I believe it really is a step in the right direction and but it requires continuous development and refinement the army's challenges all my colleagues have described with paging facility infrastructure with growing workload and caring for a large portion of our D&D bitch beneficiaries we maintain about forty percent of the total inventory medical buildings 1802 total which 386 or direct healthcare facilities with the replacement value about nine billion dollars are critical priorities right now for hospital replacement Art Fort Hood Texas in Fort Bliss Texas launch.
to Germany Fort Irwin California Fort Knox Kentucky we've been identified requirements for another 12 hospital expansions 25 help and dental clinic replacements for expansions and 16 force projection projects is our research facilities in blood centrers and preventive medicine clinics in training facilities has launched cool Regional Medical Centre mod which many view not a love you have gone through and probably pressed by its critical role in evacuation of casualties back home approaches its 50 six year anniversary we see this is a critical Goji Max need for are placement on stools an enduring part of our Thank You Asian treatment plan for wounded ill and injured soldiers throughout the world and I would ask you considerate is significant infrastructure need.