Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Eric Johnson from the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Five (NEPMU-5) was selected as a 2022 Sea Service Member of the Year by the Navy League of San Diego May 6.Johnson, who serves as the Assistant Leading Petty Officer for the NEPMU-5 administration...

NAVAL AIR STATION LEMOORE (MAY 11, 2022) – The Naval Health Clinic Lemoore Nurses’ Association announced Lt. Ashelynne Sakkalaek as its spring 2022 DAISY Award recipient.“Lt. Sakkalaek is deserving of this award because she gives and gives,” said Capt. Michele Waara, chief nursing officer at NHCL...

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...

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...

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...

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...