11 May 2022 Navy Surgeon General Recognizes Outstanding Performance during Guantanamo Bay Visit Navy Surgeon General Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, and Force Master Chief (FORCM) Michael Roberts, director of hospital corps, met with U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Guantanamo Bay (U.S. NMRTC GB) leadership and hospital staff May 11, 2022 to extend appreciation for their work and...
11 May 2022 Public Health Center Hosts Three-Day Risk Communication Workshop The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) hosted a three-day public health risk communication and media workshop at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth May 3-5.The workshop focused on how to plan and execute communications to internal and external stakeholders on any issue public...
11 May 2022 “Your Hands are Set Apart for Healing” A ceremony held Wednesday, May 11 aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point celebrated the healing hands of sailors and civilians serving aboard the clinic.“If you look throughout history, you will see that oil is used as a sign of consecration, of setting something apart for a specific purpose,” said...
10 May 2022 ‘Work hard while no one is looking’ Sailor honored as Radiation Health Technician of the Year CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - A Sailor assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune is honored to be named the “Radiation Health Technician of the Year” for calendar year 2021.Hospital Corpsman First Class Matthew Papa has worked as a Radiation Health Technician within the Naval...
09 May 2022 Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor DAISY Award winner DAISY awards recognize nurses who provide extraordinary, coordinated, compassionate and skillful care every day. RN Milewski’s staunch advocacy and enthusiasm for outstanding patient care are reflected throughout all of her patient care encounters and far exceeds the expectations of a case manager...
09 May 2022 Together for Mental Health: May is Mental Health Awareness Month By Ensign Brianna McLaughlinContributing Writer, Navy Region Hawaii Public AffairsHealth is wealth, especially when dealing with mental well-being. Growing up, kids are taught if they are hurt physically in any area, to seek help. The same should go for anyone’s mental health.Lt. Nicholas Grant, the...
09 May 2022 I Am Navy Medicine – Lt. James E. Kirlin, Navy Nurse Corps Officer Watching the 9/11 terrorist attack unfold over 20 years ago brought a Casper, Wyoming native from the Rockies to Navy Nurse Corps ranks.Lt. James Kirlin, Natrona County High School graduate class of 2002, has gone from Naval Aviation to Navy Medicine in a career path defined by operations undertaken...
08 May 2022 Mother, Daughter spend Mother’s Day aboard USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022 Ensign Gemelin Lozada and Chief Hospital Corpsman Melinda Canales are a mother-daughter duo currently embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), now underway for Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22).For Canales, who has served 19 years in the U.S. Navy, PP22 may be...
06 May 2022 NMCP HOLDS 37TH ANNUAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH COMPETITION NMCP HOLDS 37TH ANNUAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH COMPETITIONThe 37th Annual Academic Research Competition (ARC) was held the week of May 2 with the winners of each phase of the competition announced during a ceremony, May 6.There were three phases to the competition throughout the week with a poster...
05 May 2022 If it ain’t raining it ain’t DECON training at Naval Hospital Bremerton Inclement weather didn’t put a damper on Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Decontamination Team in successfully conducting and concluding a DECON certification course, May 5, 2022.Under less-than-ideal rainy conditions, NHB’s DECON team members were collectively and individually tested in being able to...