PORTSMOUTH, Va. (December 8, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) leadership and members of the Command Executive Board devoted time to the NMCP’s galley serving lines for a holiday meal, Dec. 8.The menu included shrimp cocktail, New England clam chowder, roast turkey, ribeye, and ham,...

Holiday blues, seasonal depression, and other terms have been used to describe what is now known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and more often than not, many factors play a role on an individual’s ability to be affected by this disorder each year around the holidays.In most cases, SAD...

For a few Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton, their duty is away from a nautical setting.Their crucial responsibility is conducted in a tri-service environment marked with ‘tank crossing’ signs and echoes of artillery practice in the near distance.Yet...

SAN DIEGO -- Subject matter experts (SME) from Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute (NEMTI) embarked on the USS Makin Island (LHD 8) in support of 1st Marine Division exercise Steel Knight-22 (SK-22).SK-22 is a 1st Marine Division led annual training exercise, with participation from US...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Dec. 6, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) Healthcare Simulation and Bioskills Training Center (HSBTC) was recently granted reaccreditation in the areas of core and research by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), and received a Defense Health Agency (DHA)...

Sailors from the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 2 (NEPMU-2), gathered for a nine mile “Operation Turkey Trot” on November 24th. The event was a ruck march themed food drive, where each participant filled their backpacks with non-perishable foods to donate much needed items going...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – Bethney Ann Davidson, a risk communication specialist with the Army Public Health Center, initially thought she had a cold. She was experiencing a runny nose, headache and mild congestion that intensified over the period of two days.Davidson was fully vaccinated...

Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Corpus Christi participated in semi-annual First Receiver Operations Training November 30 – December 2.The training is designed to educate personnel on life-saving skills required to triage, initiate field treatment, decontaminate and save...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (December 2, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Mammography clinic received reaccreditation, Nov. 17.The Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) requires all U.S. mammography facilities to be accredited. The American College of Radiology Mammography Accreditation...

The Latin inscription, ‘pro cura militis’ on the standard unfurled at Madigan Army Medical Center encapsulated the purpose of the Puget Sound Military Health System (MHS) Market establishment ceremony, Dec. 1, 2021.‘For the care of the soldier’ is the mission objective of the Defense Health Agency...