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Retired Sgt. 1st Class Damien Dunn returned to Winn Army Community Hospital Sept. 16 to thank certified registered nurse anesthesiologist Capt. Joseph Mazzarella and other members of his medical care team for the safe, quality healthcare they delivered when he needed emergency surgery recently.

Sept. 26, 2025

Winn's compassionate care turns a retiree’s emergency into a reassuring experience

FORT STEWART, Ga. — The daily joy of a family meal turned into an emergency room visit, surgery, and an overnight hospital stay for retired Sergeant First Class Damien Dunn, a Soldier for Life and Winn Army Community Hospital beneficiary. “I’m eating dinner, and I was feeling pain in my kidneys,” Dunn said. “I didn’t know what it was and I tried to let that passover, but my wife said just go to the ER.” Dunn did the next morning, arriving at Winn’s emergency department. The healthcare team sprang into action, triaging him and charting the way ahead.

Military medic trains on simulated injury

Dec. 4, 2024

Teaming with small business to improve technology, save lives on battlefield

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — The wing's Science & Technology team worked with a small business medical device innovator to enhance medical battlefield technology

Image of Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center entrance with the new MTF logo and tagline, Welcome to the Home of World Class Military Healthcare.

Sept. 23, 2024

Defense Health Network National Capital Region Excels in Q3 JOES Best of the Best Rankings

BETHESDA, Md. — The Defense Health Network National Capital Region (DHN-NCR) is proud to announce its outstanding performance in the third quarter Joint Outpatient Experience Survey (JOES) Best of the Best rankings. DHN-NCR facilities and staff have been recognized across multiple categories, demonstrating their commitment to delivering exceptional healthcare services to military members, veterans, and their families.

Dec. 4, 2023

Joint Commission Public Notice

U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL GUAM — The Joint Commission is conducting a triennial survey at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam and Branch Health

Army doctor in dark operating suite during surgery

Sept. 15, 2023

One-year anniversary of Urology ‘first’ at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — One year ago on an early September morning, a team performed the first endoscopic stone removal

Photo By 2nd Lt. Benjamin Aronson | Lt. Col. Paula Neemann, 15th Healthcare Operations Squadron clinical medicine flight commander, demonstrates several birth options, such as an intrauterine device, at the 15th MDG’s contraceptive clinic at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 6, 2021. The contraceptive clinic opened June 7 to service beneficiaries and provide same-day procedures without a referral. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Benjamin Aronson)

June 7, 2021

15th MDG increases women’s access to care

2nd Lt. Benjamin Aronson — JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The 15th Medical Group opened the doors to its first-ever contraceptive clinic June 7 aimed at easing access to and educating female beneficiaries on contraceptives.

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