The 328th Combat Support Hospital is an Army Reserve organization stationed in Salt Lake City and assigned to the 330th Medical Brigade, 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support), a major command of the United States Army Reserve. Its origins go back to the April 1917 organization of an American Red Cross Hospital unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles that was reorganized and redesignated on 14 March 1918 as Base Hospital No. 35. The unit was given its current numerical designation on 23 May 1947, but it would not become a Combat Support Hospital—for the first time—until 1993. It would go on to become the 328th Field Hospital near the end of the 1990s and then, in the early 2000s, revert back to the 328th Combat Support Hospital. It was redesignated effective 16 June 2000, for the 328th Field Hospital. The insignia was redesignated for the 328th Combat Support Hospital effective 17 September 2004.
Awarded an uninscribed World War I Victory streamer for its overseas service in France, the unit was demobilized in May 1919 but reconstituted in the Organized Reserve in October 1936 and consolidated with the 35th General Hospital; the merged unit retained the 35th General Hospital designation. It was ordered into active service in March 1943 and served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater in the New Guinea and Luzon campaigns before being inactivated in December 1945 while still in the Philippines; it was later awarded a Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. And in 2007-2008, while attached to the 115th Combat Support Hospital, a detachment from the 328th CSH was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation for its role in “substantially [enhancing] Combat and detainee health care” and “[transforming] the synchronization, quality, and delivery of detainee medical operations.”
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The Distinctive Unit Insignia was originally approved for the 328th General Hospital on 28 July 1970. It was redesignated effective 1 September 1995, with the description and symbolism revised, for the 328th Combat Support Hospital. It was redesignated, effective 16 June 2000, for the 328th Field Hospital, and then again for the 328th Combat Support Hospital effective 17 September 2004.
The 328th Combat Support Hospital Distinctive Unit Insignia, or unit crest, features an eight-rayed sun taken from the flag of the Philippine President that commemorates the hospital’s service in World War II, when it won a Philippine Presidential Unit Citation; the palm tree refers to the New Guinea and Luzon campaigns and the fleur-de-lis is for World War I service in France. A maroon cross, long time symbol of aid and assistance, refers to the unit’s origins at Good Samaritan Hospital. Golden rays of sunshine are a reference both to healing and the sunny climes of California, while the motto “Go And Do Thou Likewise” is a reference to the famous story of the Good Samaritan in the Bible.