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NIH Opens Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center

Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2005;293:2077-2079.

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Bethesda, Md—The Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which opened to patients in April, is a technological marvel with a human heart.

The Hatfield Center adjoins the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, which opened in 1953. These two buildings, plus an ambulatory care research facility, constitute the NIH Clinical Center. Among federal buildings, the Clinical Center is second in size only to the Pentagon.

The $596 million Hatfield Center is named for the Republican senator from Oregon, a longtime champion of government support for biomedical research. Before retiring in 1997, Hatfield helped break ground for the building’s construction.

The new Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, with its extensive patient care and laboratory facilities, will focus on translational research. (Photo credit: Duane Lempke, Sisson Studios, Inc)

Four patient care wings house 242 inpatient beds and 90 day-hospital stations. Paired around . . . [Full Text of this Article]

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH