June 17, 2022

New clinics bringing health care closer to Marines, Sailors

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina — Active duty service members aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune will soon have closer options for their health care needs. Since 2013, the Defense Health Agency has worked closely with Navy and Marine Corps counterparts to visualize and build Marine Centered Medical Homes (MCMH). These state-of-the-art clinics are scheduled to open throughout the next few years.

June 16, 2022

Continuous Glucose Monitors Now Available as a TRICARE Pharmacy Benefit

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — If you use a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), you’re in luck. TRICARE Pharmacy Program now covers two brands of CGMs. These are the Abbott FreeStyle Libre 2 and the Dexcom G6. Previously, CGMs were only available as durable medical equipment (DME) under the TRICARE medical benefit. CGMs continue to be covered as a DME medical benefit, but they’re also now available as part of your pharmacy benefit.

June 15, 2022

Emergency Medicine training for the combat medic to the physician

Graduating Tri-Service (Army, Navy and Air Force) emergency and family medicine residents, nurses, combat medics, surgeons and an array of other medical personnel, enduring one of the most hottest months in central Texas this year, completed a week long Joint Emergency Medical Exercise (JEMX) June 10.

June 15, 2022

BJACH discusses Men’s Health – Part 3: Capt. Gregory DeRose Jr.

FORT POLK, La. — June is Men’s Health Month and the Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital public affairs officer discussed the topic of men’s health with providers and health care professionals at the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, Louisiana.

June 9, 2022

DHA total force approach ensures seamless OR coverage

FORT POLK, La. — Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital received manning assistance from the U.S. Navy to support

June 9, 2022

Four-legged major brings joy to Brooke Army Medical Center

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Brooke Army Medical Center commissioned a new, four-legged staff member with a penchant for

June 9, 2022

Kleber Clinic relinquishes mission responsibility to LRMC

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — U.S. Army Health Clinic Kaiserslautern (USAHC-K) cased the battalion’s guidon to signify the unit’s relinquishing of mission responsibility to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) during a transfer of authority ceremony at Kleber Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on June 3.

June 9, 2022

LRMC CNS fuels progression in Military Medicine

LANDSTUHL, Germany — U.S. Army Maj. Rebeccah Dindinger, clinical nurse specialist, Division of Women’s Health and Newborn Care, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, discusses patient care and processes with medical staff at LRMC’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, May 13. Dindinger was recently recognized for her research and presentation at the annual TriService Nursing Research Program’s Research and Evidenced-Based Practice Dissemination Course.

June 8, 2022

Tripler residents participate in 3-Day Trauma CAPSTONE

Tripler Army Medical Center — Tripler residents participate in a 3-Day Trauma CAPSTONE event

June 7, 2022

CRDAMC names central utility plant after its late project manager Jeffrey W. Bodkin

The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center held a ceremony dedicating its Central Utility Plant after the late Jeffrey W. Bodkin June 2. Bodkin worked for almost 12 years as a project manager and contracting officer representative in the facility management division of CRDAMC before medically retiring in 2019 and passing away in 2021.