Short-staffed Navy hospital in Washington moves more than 700 patients off base for medical care

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Short-staffed Navy hospital in Washington moves more than 700 patients off base for medical care

The internal medicine clinic at the Navy’s third largest base in the United States is now staffed with one doctor for 2,200 patients, forcing officials to move one-third of the backlog of cases to medical care off the base.