 The original Naval Medical Center tower was since listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.In early 1994, after two unsuccessful operations following strokes, Dr. Milton Wittman, DSW, a nationally acclaimed administrator and pioneer of public mental-health services in the National Association of Social Workers and the National Institute of Mental Health, had to have both his legs amputated due to casts being improperly casted on his legs.Wittman's family, specifically his sons Dr. Friedner Wittman of UC Berkeley and Peretz Wittman, sued Bethesda Naval Hospital for gross malpractice.