Seventeen Brooke Army Medical Center health care professionals are listed among the Military Health System’s Joint Outpatient Experience Survey’s Best of the Best in its 2023 second quarter, including 10 specialty care providers, three primary care providers, and four clinical clerks/receptionists.

Naval Medical Center San Diego continues to lead in medical technology being the first Navy Medical Treatment Facility military hospital to conduct a total knee arthroplasty utilizing the Mako Robotics system. The Stryker Mako system is a state-of-the-art robotic arm that uses haptic technology, or commonly referred to as 3D touch, to achieve high ...

Four college nursing students traded their textbooks in for hospital scrubs to participate in the U. S. Army Nurse Summer Training Program at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, July 5-31.

“Dogs are like little mood boosters in hospitals,” said U.S. Army Capt. James Walker, hospital chaplain of Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital. He submitted a photo of his dog, Scout, to participate in DHA's Dog Days of Summer campaign, which raises awareness of facility dogs across the MHS. Everyone, including the hospital and dental commander, and ...

Blanchfield Army Community Hospital was recently recognized for its commitment to reducing its environmental footprint in the global movement for environmental health.

There’s always a buzz with Naval Hospital Bremerton Preventive Medicine during the summer months. The preventive medicine team is undertaking their seasonal surveillance and prevention for West Nile vector control on U.S. Navy installations in the Pacific northwest.

According to Dink Jardine, director for professional education at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, their previous simulation training exercises have been challenging due to a lack of medical center spaces needed for patient care. The new Healthcare Simulation and Bio Skills Center opened its doors July 11, 2023, and will provide more availability to ...

Naval Support Activity Bethesda welcomed HMC Sully H. W. Bush and HM2 Luke to their new ranks. These Walter Reed Bethesda Facility Dogs are certified and highly trained dogs who provide critical support to wounded warriors and their families as they transition back into life after injury or serious illness.

Barksdale Air Force Base has been chosen as one of six U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command bases to pilot the targeted care concept. Targeted care standardizes the patient intake and evaluation process, and ensures the patient gets the specific care they need in a timely manner.

During his first overseas tour, the Honorable Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD for Health Affairs), visited Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC), as part of a larger visit to Europe, July 10, 2023.

U.S. Army Col. Elba M. Villacorta was named July 5 as the new director of Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center, formerly known as Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune’s Family Medicine Residency Program graduated 11 physicians and 10 interns on June 30, 2023. For the 12th consecutive year, the graduating class received 100% pass rates on their Family Medicine Certification Examinations given by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Troop Command, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was redesignated the Medical Readiness Brigade, National Capital Region, during a ceremony June 30 at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, which also saw the leadership of the unit change hands.

After being struck by a car, Madisyn Cardenas had a torn aorta, broken hip, pinky finger, pelvis, and clavicle; lacerated tongue; separated abdomen; kidney lacerations; colon tear; brain hematoma; and multiple cuts, bruises, and puncture wounds. “The scariest of all was a tear in my aorta that went undetected until my arrival at Brooke Army Medical ...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center unveiled its new single-port robotic surgical system, becoming the first Department of Defense facility and the first military hospital in the National Capital Region to use the newly Food and Drug Administration approved medical device.