Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) is the first Navy military treatment facility (MTF) to be awarded the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) Pathway to Excellence designation, Dec. 10.It was a three-year journey to not only be the first MTF in Navy Medicine to achieve this goal, but...

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune’s Communication Center works similar to a human heart. Like a heart pumps blood to the rest of the body, employees of the Communication Center say they help pump information to the rest of the medical treatment facility.The main purpose of the center is establishing...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (December 8, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) leadership and members of the Command Executive Board devoted time to the NMCP’s galley serving lines for a holiday meal, Dec. 8.The menu included shrimp cocktail, New England clam chowder, roast turkey, ribeye, and ham,...

Holiday blues, seasonal depression, and other terms have been used to describe what is now known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and more often than not, many factors play a role on an individual’s ability to be affected by this disorder each year around the holidays.In most cases, SAD...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Dec. 6, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) Healthcare Simulation and Bioskills Training Center (HSBTC) was recently granted reaccreditation in the areas of core and research by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), and received a Defense Health Agency (DHA)...

When you ask Hospital Corpsman Second Class (HM2) Juan Perez if there is an experience that has affected him more than any other, you can see the answer in his eyes before “Yea,” passes his lips. His gaze fixes somewhere long ago and far from the office chair from which he leans forward. “It was in...