09 December 2025 Acting Secretary of War for Health Affairs Visits U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa, Japan — Acting Assistant Secretary of War for Health Affairs Dr. Stephen Ferrara made a brief visit to U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa on Dec. 3, emphasizing his commitment to supporting military medical facilities even during the holiday season. Ferrara told a standing-room-only...
08 December 2025 Connect the Dots about Measles It’s not hard to connect the dots.Once considered eradicated, measles is now escalating.Naval Hospital Bremerton public health and preventive medicine providers have been paying close attention to locally confirmed measle cases in the Puget Sound area, as well as outbreaks across the country.While...
07 December 2025 Prior Enlisted Friends Selected as Chief Nursing Officers after 26 Years of Service PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 29, 2025) - Cmdr. Angelita Kisena and Cmdr. Cheryl Castro enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1998 as hospital corpsmen and were stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, North Carolina, where they quickly became teammates and friends. Throughout the years of working there, they...