Sgt 1st Class Zachary Harrison, an event planner for the 2023 Medical Readiness Command-West Best Medic Competition, provides details of an event to a Best Medic Competitor. Harrison is assigned to the Evans Army Community Hospital Radiology Department.

Nov. 1, 2023

The Team Behind the Team of 2023 MRC-West Best Medic Competition

FORT CARSON, Co. — When the 2023 Medical Readiness Command-West Best Medic Competition winning team crossed the finish line, they did so with the support of more than 150 cadre and support staff who planned and executed every phase of the competition.

Chaplain (Maj.) Danny Crosby, chief of the Evans Army Community Hospital Department of Ministry and Pastoral Care, provides opening remarks during Evans' first Peer Support Program training for staff members Oct. 5. The Peer Support Program, or PSP, is designed to provide a support network for clinical staff who regularly manage significant emotional stress due to involvement in an adverse event, caring for trauma victims, negative patient outcomes, or other emotional events.

Nov. 1, 2023

Peer Support Program Offers Care for Caregivers

FORT CARSON, Co. — Evans Army Community Hospital’s Department of Ministry and Pastoral Care hosted its first ever Peer Support Program training for staff members Oct. 5.

Staff member preparing a blood sample slide.

Nov. 1, 2023

Lab Inspections at Fort Irwin and Yuma Proving Ground End with Outstanding Results

WEED ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, Calif. — Bi-annual laboratory inspection of testing facilities and blood bank under the Fort Irwin and Yuma Proving Ground umbrella have achieved full accreditation.

Medical Readiness Command, Pacific Regional Trials 2023

Oct. 31, 2023

Medical Readiness Command, Pacific Regional Trials 2023

Tripler Army Medical Center — More than two dozen wounded, ill, and injured athletes competed for a place in the 2024 Department of Defense Warrior Games during the 2023 Medical Readiness Command, Pacific Trials, which took place Oct. 15-21.

CRDAMC PAO

Oct. 31, 2023

CRDAMC ‘one-stop resource’ during Fort Cavazos Retiree Health Fair

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center provided veterans health care screening opportunities and available immunizations, resources and information from hospital staff and Fort Cavazos organizations during the 48th annual Retiree Health Fair Oct. 28 here. They also provided advance care planning sessions and Humana and Tricare information.

CRDAMC PAO

Oct. 31, 2023

CRDAMC resumes partnership with community Independent School Districts

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center clinical education departments resumed a partnership with the Killeen and Copperas Cove local school districts’ healthcare programs Oct. 26 here.

Maverick Gavidia, an infant patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and her mother pose for a photo in Walter Reed's NICU in Bethesda, Maryland, Oct. 31, 2023. Maverick was dressed up to celebrate her first Halloween.

Oct. 31, 2023

Walter Reed’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Dresses Babies for First Halloween

WRNMMC, Bethesda, Md. — Inside Walter Reed’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), newborn babies bedecked in festive costumes smiled for their parents and nurses, clamoring for lunch and a Halloween treat. Today’s “Trick or Treat” extravaganza, organized by the NICU’s “Sunshine Committee” celebrates milestones for all to enjoy.

Army Chaplain (Maj.) Vincent Bain, ethics advisor for Walter Reed as well as the co-chair of the Hospital Ethics Committee, explained the purpose of healthcare ethics consultation is “to improve the quality of health care through the identification, analysis and resolution of ethical questions or concerns.”

Oct. 31, 2023

Walter Reed hosts Healthcare Ethics Symposium – What are you going to do?

WRNMMC, Bethesda, Md. — Joseph Procaccino, Jr. and other speakers at the Healthcare Ethics Symposium discussed a variety of ethical issues, including healthcare ethics consultations, moral injury, military medical ethics and dilemmas in contemporary armed conflict, and lessons learned regarding ethics at Uniformed Services University (USU), the former National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) over the past four decades. Speakers also presented case scenarios involving ethical issues and challenges for participants to consider and discuss, including one involving the trials of labor [and delivery] focused on embracing informed consent and patient autonomy.

LRMC, KMC offer gratitude toward military retirees

Oct. 30, 2023

LRMC, KMC offer gratitude toward military retirees

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — As part of the annual KMC Retiree Appreciation Day, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center partnered with U.S. Army Garrison Rhineland-Pfalz and Ramstein Air Base to show gratitude and support to military retirees living overseas at the Ramstein Officers’ Club on Ramstein Air Base, Oct. 19.

USO's Warrior Center at Landstuhl celebrates 15 years

Oct. 30, 2023

USO's Warrior Center at Landstuhl celebrates 15 years

LANDSTUHL, Germany — On Oct. 20, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) proudly joined in the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the USO's Warrior Center, at Landstuhl, Germany. The center, the first of its kind, opened on Oct. 21, 2008, and was constructed specifically to provide comfort to wounded, ill and injured service members who are receiving care at LRMC, serving countless Service Members, while offering a touch of home and sense of community during their recovery.

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