As Fort Belvoir continues to gear up for an influx of over 21,000 new military and civilian jobs by 2011the constuction of the new DeWitt Hospital continues to move forward.

The current DeWitt hospital is a typical military hospital with most of the clinics and services that you will find at any civilian hospital. The outside of the building is showing its age and might remind someone arriving at the main door more of a bunker than a hospital. Our family has fond memories of the old DeWitt as my daughter Kara is one of the 64,000 plus babies that have been born at DeWitt in the last 50 years. Today the hospital handles up to 150,000 patients including the families stationed at Fort Belvoir, retirees and their families as well.

The new hospital construction is well underway. Located just inside Pence gate the site is just down the road from the current hospital but it is easy to see how this new facility will eclipse the old one. The new DeWitt Army hospital will not be a single building but a complex. Featuring state of the art technology eliminating the need for hand carrying of medical records from one facility to another, top of the line clinic services and more inpatient services the hospital will rival any top of the line private hospital.

The new DeWitt hospital is just one of the many changes coming to Fort Belvoir as a result of BRAC. If you are headed to Fort Belvoir or any of the other military bases in our area give the Cindy Jones team a call at 703-346-2213 to discuss your housing needs. Put my personal and professional experience with military relocations to work for you.