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Honoring the Practice of Nursing is the Focus of National Nurses Week
Nurses make a difference—every day, anytime, anywhere, always—is the message from the Defense Health Agency as National Nurses Week is celebrated, May 6-12, 2024. Around the Military Health System, nurses provide essential, person-centered care that keeps our military communities healthy. Military and civilian nurses make a difference through their essential contributions to the DHA mission of improving health and building readiness.
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Army General Gustave Perna credited “the true unsung heroes” of the COVID-19 pandemic, “the over 100,000 Americans who supported clinical trials, who made delivering hundreds of millions of vaccines possible.” Perna made his remarks virtually to the Henry Jackson Foundation “Heroes of Military Medicine” awards ceremony May 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C., where he was honored for his senior leadership of the COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics effort. (Courtesy of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.)
Air Force 2nd Lt. Aundrea Temple, assigned to the 60th Medical Group, 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., cares for a patient at Dameron Hospital, California (Photo by: Army National Guard photo illustration by Staff Sgt. Eddie Siguenza).
COVID-19 pandemic will affect military medicine for years to come, DHA Director Place tells HJF awards ceremony.
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Air Force Airman Frederick Hall, (right) a student in the METC Behavioral Health Technician program, conducts a mock counseling session with Navy Seaman Chery Gonzales–Polanco, (left), a student acting as a patient in the simulation. (Photo by Lisa Braun, Medical Education and Training Campus Public Affairs)
Senior Airman Jessica McVean, 60th Inpatient Therapeutic Squadron technician, briefs Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, Defense Health Agency director, May 10, 2021, at Travis Air Force Base, California. Place and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Gragg, DHA senior enlisted advisor. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell)
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s command emergency manager Chris Gillette (center) shifted to overdrive to establish strict protocols including a centralized screening and testing area at the hospital. (Photo by Harvey Duze, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center)
Army Maj. Kathryn Buckland, the chief of the resource management division for Weed Army Community Hospital responds to emails May 5 at the Dr. Mary E. Walker Center on Fort Irwin, California. Buckland became a fellow of the American College for Healthcare Executives in March 2021 (Photo by: Kimberly Hackbarth, Weed Army Community Hospital).
Looking back on the last three years, Buckland said the process to become a fellow was an investment in herself.
DHA leadership visit 60th Medical Group at Travis AFB.
Military mental health professionals provide a critical role in behavioral health care for service members and beneficiaries.
MHS readiness was put to the test at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in early 2020.
The online, self-paced Women’s Health Transition Training provides important information for transitioning servicewomen on women’s health care services available from VA post-separation from the military (Photo by: graphic courtesy of the Department of Veterans Affairs).
Sailors assigned to the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington form a teal ribbon on the flight deck for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, April 26, 2021. The teal ribbon represents a symbol of support for the cause (Photo by: Navy Petty Officer 2ndClass John Bellino).
The broken circle serves as a symbol of the service members with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress (Photo by: Dr. Thomas Piazza).
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