BY JEFF LINK
The military?medical complex is looking at environmental approaches to treating trauma.
From the November 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine 
This past summer, Fred Foote met me in front of Naval Support Activity Bethesda, the home of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. We set out for an early look at the Green Road, a half-mile path and a 1.7-acre woodland garden being built along the banks of a stream that winds through the sprawling campus.
Foote is a retired navy neurologist who is an adjunct assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). He also has the title of scholar at an outfit in Baltimore called the Institute for Integrative Health. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he served as a physician on the hospital ship Comfort. When the military decided in 2005 to move Walter Reed National Military Medical Center onto the naval campus to consolidate hospital operations, navy leadership recruited Foote, off duty at the time, to advise on new hospital construction. Part of the charge, which Foote took on under the banner of what he calls the Epidaurus Project, was to identify the best ways to deliver patient-centered design and care. The commemorative structure offers clear sight lines. Photo by Lisa Helfert.
The Green Road Project, an initiative of the Institute for Integrative Health, is an attempt to marry holistic, or alternative, medicine with a trad...