01 November 2019 A Message from new Navy Surgeon General Rear Adm. Gillingham I am honored and privileged to serve as your 39th Surgeon General of the Navy. Below you will see an outline of my priorities, and the course that we will sail together. Take a moment to review and discuss this information with your Shipmates, refl...
30 July 2019 Frequently Asked Questions: Transition of Navy Military Medical Treatment Facilities Q: What is changing? What?s the purpose of the changes? A: Navy Medicine is structuring its forces to focus on Readiness to better meet the needs of operational commanders, while transferring the administration and management of the Military Medical...
30 July 2019 Navy Medicine Transition Quick Facts The National Defense Authorization Acts for Fiscal Years 2017, 2018 and 2019 require the Military Departments to transition administration and management of military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) to the Defense Health Agency (DHA) not later tha...
30 July 2019 A Message from the Navy Surgeon General: Military Medical Treatment Facilities Transition Official U.S. Navy photo[/caption] As many of you have heard, the administration and management of the Services? hospitals and clinics under the Military Health System (MHS) are undergoing a transition to the Defense Health Agency (DHA).? This tra...
28 June 2019 Remembering Navy Medicine in the Balkan Crisis Fleet Hospital 6, Camp Pleso, Zagreb, Croatia, March 1994 (BUMED Archive)...
14 June 2019 A Message from the Navy Surgeon General: Hospital Corps 121st Birthday On behalf of the Navy Medicine family, I would like to thank the members of the Hospital Corps for their 121 years of faithful and exceptional service. You have supplied our Navy and Marine Corps team with unmatched first-rate health care that has al...
12 June 2019 2019 Brazilian Riverine Mission 190220-N-ZW825-0384 SAO CARLOS, Brazil (Feb. 20, 2019) Lt. Cmdr. John Roman and Brazilian navy Lt. Leandro Guedes examine a young patient during a medical clinic in Sao Carlos, Brazil, Feb. 20. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Cl...
09 May 2019 A Message from the Navy Surgeon General: Celebrating 111 years of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (April 9, 2019) ? Ensign Sandy Link, a nurse at Naval Hospital Jacksonville?s Multi-Service Unit, flushes a patient?s intravenous tubing. Link, a native of Cocoa Beach, Florida, says, ?I'm from a military family, so I developed a p...
05 April 2019 FIVE NAVY MEDICINE MOMENTS IN MARCH 2019 [PHOTOS] JAPAN (Mar. 12, 2019) - Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Ryan Kitchens, assigned to Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2, is demolishing a pile jacket. UCT-2 is forward deployed throughout the Pacific region supporting Commander 7th Fleet Operations. UCT ...
04 April 2019 I am Navy Medicine, Lt. Cmdr. Akinwale ?Wale? Onamade 181019-N-PG340-051 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Oct. 19, 2018) Lt. Cmdr. Akinwale ?Wale? Onamade fills a pharmacy order at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia, where he works as a pharmacist, recalled to active duty status. Onamade joined the U.S. Navy as ...