Historic California Posts, Camps,
Stations and Airfields
Naval Convalescent Hospital, Arrowhead
Springs
(Naval Special Hospital, Arrowhead
Springs)
History by
the Society for the History of Navy Medicine
The Navy commissioned this hospital on
23 May 1944, barely two weeks after signing its lease agreement
. A day later, it received 500 ambulatory patients from nearby
U. S. Naval Hospital, Corona, California. With “139 rooms
and 10 bungalows, together with a beautiful outdoor swimming
pool, a built-in little theater seating 130 persons and other
recreational facilities on…1700 acres of mountainous terrain”,
if offered excellent convalescent facilities. Up to the end of
November 1945, the hospital had cared for nearly 5800 service
personnel. Today the facility and its grounds are owned by the
Campus Crusade for Christ.
