The Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton main operating room perioperative nurses were recognized with the 2024 Competency & Credentialing Institute (CCI) TrueNorth Award on April 2, 2024.The TrueNorth Award was established in 2013 and is presented to one medical facility per year.According to the CCI...

For Roger Smith, the upcoming solar eclipse is not to be missed.The Naval Hospital Bremerton IT support and clinical liaison will drive to the expected path of totality to experience the full celestial phenomena, April 8, 2024.His trip planning is centered on safety. He’ll be equipped with eclipse...

Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Six (NEPMU SIX) commemorated 75 years of exemplary service in Force Health Protection on March 27th, honoring a legacy of unparalleled achievements.Established in 1949 by Rear Adm. Clifford Swanson, Surgeon General of the Navy, NEPMUs emerged from the...

What began as the largest amphibious operation during WWII in terms of troops, tonnage and firepower on April 1, 1945, ended as the bloodiest struggle in the Pacific campaign.The Battle of Okinawa lasted 82 harrowing days and is considered one of the most merciless of the war with American...

With the Defense Health Agency mandating that all military treatment facilities commands upgrade their current computers by mid-May, that herculean task has already been accomplished by Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Information Management Department.According to Patrick Flaherty, NHB chief information...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 25, 2024) – Rear Adm. Guido Valdes, commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) made an official visit to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio.During his visit, he toured NAMRU San Antonio facilities at the Battlefield Health and Trauma...

What started as a unique civil service opportunity for one human resources specialist has turned into more than 40 years of service to her nation.“In the early 80s I was attending San Diego Mesa College when the opportunity to work at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) surfaced. Because my dad...

A ship’s medical department is a complicated, interwoven group of people with different responsibilities dedicated to the health and wellbeing of the crew. Ranging from the ship’s nurse to the enlisted corpsman the medical administration, everyone has a purpose and a mission to complete.Lt. Cmdr...

On the morning of March 20, in the year 1969, Hospital Corpsman Tommy Vickers, stationed in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, was looking for his friend and fellow corpsman after Viet Cong had run over their positions at An Hoa.Vickers and others were had toiled through the previous long day and longer...

Inventive ingenuity was on display for staff, patient and visitor at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton.During the command-wide Continuous Process Improvement Fair held March 11-14, 2024, multiple departments came together to showcase their ideas to enhance the impact on quality...