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Army Corps conducts alternate care site inspections in Maryland in response to COVID-19

Baltimore District Alternate Care Site Task Force Members perform a site inspection at the Brockbridge Correctional Facility in Jessup, Maryland, March 24, 2020. This is part of a larger FEMA mission assignment to convert large spaces to serve as alternate care sites in response to COVID-19.

Alternate Care Sites Inspections

USACE Support to COVID-19 Response

Hear remarks by Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, USACE Commanding General and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, specific to support by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the national Coronavirus response. These clips are excerpts from today's press conference in the Pentagon. The full event, including remarks by Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy; Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville; Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite; and Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Scott Dingle can also be viewed here: https://facebook.com/DeptofDefense/videos/2643688735757461/

Gen Semonite Remarks at Pentagon Press Conference March 20

Alternate Care Site team forming

Members of the Norfolk District alternate-care-site planning and assessment team receive there initial guidance while using proper social distancing and disbursing throughout one of the District's training rooms. The team is responsible for evaluating existing building to see if the can be converted to alternate-care-sites, should the need arise from the potential influx of COVID-19 patients. (U.S. Army photo by Patrick Bloodgood)

Norfolk begins evaluating Alternate Care Sites (COVID-19)

Huntsville Center contract aids Navy hospital ship supporting coronavirus-19 efforts

Pallets of supplies await to be craned aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) at Naval Base San Diego, March 21. Huntsville Center is providing an $187,000 information technology software acquisition for the Mercy as the ship serves as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals.

USACE Huntsville Center Aids Navy in COVID-19 Response

New York District Team members work diligently in support of efforts to turn Jacob Javtis Convention Center into a Federal Alternate Care Facility

New York District Team members work diligently in support of efforts to turn Jacob Javtis Convention Center into a Federal Alternate Care Facility to support Non-COVID19 patients in order to ease the burden on the New York Hospital System.

The Corps Environment (February 2020)

This edition highlights partnership and collaboration, in support of Environmental Operating Principle #6. Content includes commentary from Ms. Stacey Brown, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Planning and Policy Division Chief, and highlights a variety of projects and initiatives across the enterprise.

Updated National Levee Database Now Available

“The National Levee Database is a public view into the information that builds understanding of the benefits and potential risks levees pose for the communities in which they exist,” said Eric C. Halpin, P.E., USACE deputy dam and levee safety officer.