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Ex. AGY-DEFENSE-GUARD-102 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

Army Transforms Event Center Into Hospital for COVID-19 Response (Mar. 30, 2020)

Army transforms event center into hospital for COVID-19 response

U.S. Northern Command (DoD News) · U.S. Northern Command (Seattle, Washington alternate care facility) (Federal)

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The record

Jurisdiction
U.S. Northern Command (Seattle, Washington alternate care facility)
Level
Federal
Authority
FEMA mission assignment to DoD
Issued
2020-03-30 Mar. 30, 2020
Effective
2020-03-29
End
The Seattle field hospital was demobilized in April 2020 (not documented here) (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Mar. 29, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Health care ordersEvents and venues
Addressees
  • public
Functions reached
  • EVT CenturyLink Field Event Center withdrawn from events
  • HC
Collection
Defense installations and the National Guard AGY-DEFENSE-GUARD

Operative words

The site is undergoing a major transformation from a sports arena to a world-class Army hospital.... The center is being transformed into a temporary Army medical facility to provide care to non-COVID-19 infected patients from local hospitals and allow local medical professionals to focus on treating COVID-19. U.S. Northern Command is providing military support to the Department of the Health and

Enforcement

Facts and circumstances: event venue converted under governmental mission assignment

Notes

Companion to the USACE alternate-care-site program (Ex. 101) and the Detroit (TCF Center) and Fort Worth releases (Exs. 159-160 where retrieved).

Retrieval note

Agency news article, not the mission assignment itself.