18 March 2025 Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Visits U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Dr. Stephen Ferrara, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, visited U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay to engage with leadership and staff on Feb. 27, 2025.Ferrara’s visit underscores his commitment to engaging with medical personnel at military hospitals...
14 March 2025 Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Patuxent River and Naval Air Station Patuxent River Partner with the St. Mary’s County Health Department for Potassium Iodide Distribution. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Patuxent River, in collaboration with Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River and the St. Mary's County Health Department (SMCHD), successfully conducted a Potassium Iodide (KI) distribution event on March 12, 2025. The drive-through event, held...
14 March 2025 Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune officer named 'Occupational Therapy Officer of the Year' Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune is celebrating the recognition of one of its providers as Occupational Therapy Officer of the Year for the United States Navy.Lieutenant Jeff Bazanele was announced earlier this year as the recipient of the honor for 2024. Bazanele, a native...
13 March 2025 Personal Determination Leads Civilian Employee to 35 Years at Naval Hospital Jacksonville “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed” (Washington, 1901, p. 217).As the most senior and final remaining civilian galley employee at Naval Hospital (NH) Jacksonville, Michael Jennings,...
12 March 2025 All paws on deck! U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay begins American Red Cross Animal Visitation Program GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - Tongues – and tails – were wagging at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay as news traveled down the halls one paw at a time; it was official, the American Red Cross Animal Visitation Program kicked off, Jan. 22, 2025.The inaugural visit began in the command suite boardroom...
12 March 2025 NMRTC Jax, EMF-M trains HSM-50 in medical ops The Navy is looking at the future of warfare and with solutions of how to treat wounded are being explored. Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 50 stationed at Naval Station (NS) Mayport recently received casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) training from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command...