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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) announced Navy Medicine's fiscal year 2021 Sailor of the Year (SOY) at Defense Health Headquarters, May 5.Rear Adm. Bruce L. Gillingham, Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and Force Master Chief Michael J...

Medical Power begins with people on optimized platforms operating as cohesive teams demonstrating high reliability performance.This is the very foundation of Navy Medicine. And few people illustrate this better than Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Hammer.Through his work as a Navy dentist, maxillofacial surgical...

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed San Diego, May 3, marking the beginning of Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22).Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in...