Description: Sampson Naval Hospital: The Station included a 1,000-bed hospital, housing for personnel, and a school to train corpsmen. Thirty one-story ward buildings comprised the main hospital with additional special services buildings, quarters for officers and nurses, a recreation building and barracks for corpsmen. (reports vary from a typical 100 bed hospital, constructed as a 1,000-bed hospital and often listed as a 2,500-bed hospital). The 1,000-bed hospital, with about 900 TB patients, transferred to the VA at the close of 1946. This was known as area Q, a 466 acre reservation of 141 buildings. On 1 July 1946 the hospital was closed due to budget cuts. In October 1946 the hospital was transferred to Willard State Hospital.