page_title: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
section_title: Subordinate commands
hierarchical_section_title: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery / Organization / Subordinate commands
caption_attribution_description: English: Defense Health Healthcare Headquarters located in Falls Church, VA. Locally known as the Mel-Par building.
context_page_description: The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is an agency of the United States Department of the Navy that manages health care activities for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. BUMED operates hospitals and other health care facilities as well as laboratories for biomedical research, and trains and manages the Navy's many staff corps related to medicine. Its headquarters is located at the Defense Health Headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia. BUMED has 63,000 medical personnel and more than a million eligible beneficiaries.
context_section_description: BUMED operates the following facilities and commands:
  Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Falls Church, Virginia
  Naval Medical Forces Atlantic:
  Naval Medical Forces Atlantic, Portsmouth, Virginia
  Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, 	Portsmouth, Virginia
  Naval Hospital Beaufort, 	Beaufort, South Carolina
  Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, 	Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
  Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, 	Guantanamo, Cuba
  Naval Hospital Jacksonville, 	Jacksonville, Florida
  Naval Hospital Naples, 	Naples, Italy
  Naval Hospital Pensacola, 	Pensacola, Florida
  Naval Hospital Rota, 	Rota, Cádiz, Spain
  Naval Hospital Sigonella, 	Sigonella, Italy
  Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, 	Great Lakes, Illinois
  Naval Health Clinic Annapolis, 	Annapolis, Maryland
  Naval Health Clinic Charleston, 	North Charleston, South Carolina
  Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point, 	Cherry Point, North Carolina
  Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi, 	Corpus Christi, Texas
  Naval Health Clinic New England, 	Newport, Rhode Island
  Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River, 	Patuxent River, Maryland
  Naval Health Clinic Quantico, 	Quantico, Virginia
  2nd Dental Battalion, 	Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
  Naval Medical Forces Pacific:
  Naval Medical Forces Pacific, San Diego, California
  Naval Medical Center San Diego, 	San Diego, California
  Naval Hospital Bremerton, 	Bremerton, Washington
  Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, 	Camp Pendleton, California
  Naval Hospital Lemoore, 	Lemoore, California
  Naval Hospital Oak Harbor, 	Oak Harbor, Washington
  Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms, 	Twentynine Palms, California
  Naval Hospital Guam, 	Agana Heights, Guam
  Naval Hospital Okinawa, 	Okinawa, Japan
  Naval Hospital Yokosuka Japan, 	Yokosuka, Japan
  Naval Health Clinic Hawaii, 	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  1st Dental Battalion,  	Camp Pendleton, California
  3rd Dental Battalion, 	Okinawa, Japan
  Naval Medical Forces Support Command:
  Naval Medical Forces Support Command, San Antonio, Texas
  Navy Medicine Professional Development Center, Bethesda, Maryland
  Navy Medicine Training Support Center, San Antonio, Texas
  Navy Medicine Operational Training Center, Pensacola, Florida
  Other commands:
  Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland
  Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California
  Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, Connecticut
  Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
  Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
  Naval Medical Research Unit 2, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  Naval Medical Research Unit 3, Cairo, Egypt
  Naval Medical Research Center Asia, Singapore
  Naval Medical Research Unit 6, Lima, Peru
  Naval Medical Logistics Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland
  Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity, Yorktown, Virginia
  Navy Medicine Information Systems Support Activity, San Antonio, Texas
  Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, Portsmouth, Virginia
  Navy Drug Screening Lab Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
  Hospital ships:
  While the Medical Treatment Facility on each hospital ship is operated by BUMED's medical personnel, the ships themselves are operated by civilian mariners employed by Military Sealift Command.
  USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), 	San Diego, California
  USNS Comfort (T-AH-20),  	Norfolk, Virginia
caption: Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia
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