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Limb Salvage, Reconstruction, Restoration Care are at the Core of Provider Training
Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence hosts monthly education series for providers, with next one on April 24, 2024.
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Hospital ship USNS Mercy arrives in Los Angeles March 27, 2020, to serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients who had been admitted to shore-based hospitals (Photo by: Navy Petty Officer 1st Class David Mora).
PRK and Lasik are currently available at all 26 military laser centers for active duty military members.
Join us for the MHS' Second COVID-19 Town Hall with Col Jennifer Harrison
Standing in the shadow…on a fateful day 52 years ago, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class David R. Ray was killed in action rendering emergency medical treatment to wounded Marines, putting service before self in his lifesaving efforts. Ray’s legacy continues on, embodied by staff at NMRTU Everett, located within the David R. Ray Branch Medical Clinic (Photo by: Douglas Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton).
Members of the initial group of RCA W3 course developers. Back row, from left: Robin Francis, Army Col. (Dr.) Timothy Switaj, Schandra Carr, Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Alan Bartholomew, and Sylvia Ringmacher; front row, from left: Chad McGrath, Lori Barteau, Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Amy Jiang, Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Renée Matos, Army Maj. (Dr.) Matthew Kemm, and Ashley Parham (Courtesy of Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Renée Matos).
Army Staff Sgt. Gene Calantoc, a member of the Soldier Recovery Unit at Brooke Army Medical Center, prepares to loose an arrow during the Virtual Army Trials archery event held at Buck and Doe’s Mercantile in San Antonio, Texas, March 10, 2021. Calantoc is one of several Soldiers at the SRU competing to be selected to represent Team Army in the 2021 DoD Warrior Games (Photo by: Daniel J. Calderón, Brooke Army Medical Center).
Knowing where problems may arise ultimately results in higher quality of patient care.
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Sailors at the David R. Ray Branch Medical Clinic in Washington claim pride in serving at clinic dedicate to one of the 23 Navy hospital corpsman to have received the Medal of Honor.
Air Force Master Sgt. Jorge Nikolas, a student in the Nutrition and Diet Therapy program at the Medical Education and Training Campus on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, prepares a tray of steaks in the kitchen training laboratory.
Observer-controller/trainers at the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center in Rochester, Minnesota, monitor the vital signs of a simulated patient at the 399th Combat Support Hospital, 804th Medical Brigade, 3d Medical Command (Deployment Support) out of Fort Devens, Massachusetts. The exercise was to practice Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety, or TeamSTEPPS (Photo by: Army Staff Sgt. Andrea Merritt).
Nutrition plays an important role in military readiness.
The Joint Patient Safety Reporting System and TeamSTEPPS play a major role in the DOD’s Patient Safety Program
The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division continues to evolve military health surveillance in order to detect new and emerging hazards, track rates and trends of illnesses and injuries of concern. Their efforts support our service members operating in austere conditions, like the Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit as they participate in Exercise Cobra Gold 2020 in Thailand (Photo by: Marine Lance Cpl. Colton Garrett, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit).
Proper concussion recovery protocols are critical to returning service members and trainees and students such as these U.S. Military Academy cadets and U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen during the annual Army Navy football game (Photo by: Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza, Office of the Secretary of the Navy).
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