Story by Christopher Perrine Naval Health Clinic Hawaii Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Pearl Harbor held a change of command ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam June 28. Capt. Salee Oboza relieved Capt. Victor Diaz, who had served as the commanding officer of NMRTC Pearl Harbor as well as Naval Health Clinic Hawaii since […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Six Walter Reed health care providers and the administrative staff of the Radiation Therapy clinic earned recognition in the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) Joint Outpatient Experience Survey (JOES) Best of the Best report for the second quarter of 2024, recently released by Military Health System […]
Story by Jayna Legg Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center GREAT LAKES, Ill. — Navy Medical Corps Capt. Chad Roe assumed command of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Great Lakes July 2, in a ceremony at Naval Station Great Lakes, relieving Navy Medical Corps Capt. Chad McKenzie. NMRTC Great Lakes is […]
Story by Christina Johnson Naval Medical Center – Portsmouth In recognition of Independence Day, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) staff placed American flags on 880 graves located at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads-Portsmouth Annex (NSA HR-PA) Captain Ted Conaway Memorial Naval Cemetery, July 3. The grave site is laid out in four quadrants forming a […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Diabetes is a common condition in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 38 million American adults currently have diabetes. “Even though diabetes is common, many people don’t know about its connection to oral health,” said Douglas Elsesser, a […]
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob Woitzel Naval Medical Center San Diego Capt. Jeffrey H. Feinberg turned over command of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) to Capt. Charles E. Dickerson Jr. during a ceremony at Naval Air Station North Island presided over by Commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific, Director, Defense Health Network […]
Story by Chief Petty Officer John Grandin U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – International military medical teams from around the globe convened at Sharkey Theater on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the 2024 Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Medical Symposium, July 1-2, 2024. Themed “Tyranny of Distance: Closing the […]
Story by Kira Baldau Air Force Medical Service Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, U.S. Air Force Surgeon General, retired from the U.S. Air Force in a ceremony at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2024, closing his 39-year career. General CQ Brown, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presided over the ceremony […]
Story by Riley Eversull Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune CAMP LEJEUNE, NC – Blayne Brown was enjoying the last day of summer vacation with family when he was bitten by a shark in waist-deep water off the coast of North Topsail Beach, North Carolina. “I didn’t even see the shark,” said 14-year-old Brown. “I sort […]
Story by Regena Kowitz Defense Health Agency Last month, chief medical officers (CMO), chief nursing officers (CNO), and chief dental officers (CDO) from the Defense Health Network Pacific Rim (DHN-PR) headed to Fairfax, Va., to hone their skills and build their expertise as clinical leaders. CMOs, CNOs, and CDOs across the Defense Health Agency (DHA) […]