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9 Military Hospitals Receive Highest Leapfrog Grade for Safe, High-Quality Care
Defense Health Agency is the first federal health system to participate in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program—receiving an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for nine military hospitals and clinics.
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Tanya Stuckey, public health specialist in the Directorate for Public Health at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms, was directly responsible compiling and submitting Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms’ Blue-H Award submission. (Photo by David Marks, NH Twentynine Palms.)
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Army Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Wood, who supports Blanchfield Army Community Hospital’s Soldier Medical Homes, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Hillary Justmann, a registered nurse at BACH. Justmann is a frontline worker who provides medical care to COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. She and other healthcare workers and first responders are among the first recipients of the first phase of COVID vaccines on Fort Campbell. Under the CDC guidelines, military and civilian healthcare workers and first responders directly involved in the hospital’s COVID response who have a high risk of exposure to the virus while carrying out their duties will be vaccinated first, keeping them in the fight. (Photo by David Gillespie, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital.)
Army Capt. Patricia Nolan, a nurse, prepares vaccinations of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 at Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington on Dec. 16. Madigan is part of DHA’s Puget Sound market, scheduled to begin transition to the DHA in February. (Photo by John Wayne Liston, Madigan Army Medical Center.)
BACH now joins other Defense Health Agency military treatment facilities that have received the vaccine, marking the start of a phased-in vaccination program to mitigate the spread of the virus.
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Army Maj. (Dr.) Douglas Ruhl, a surgeon at Madigan Army Medical Center, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, uses the COVID-19 airway management isolation chamber (CAMIC) to perform a mastoidectomy, which removes a growth behind the eardrum. This procedure requires drilling into the skull, creating bone dust and aerosolized droplets. (Photo courtesy of Douglas Ruhl.)
The holiday season can be a stressful time of year for many people. (Photo by Army Lt. Col. Keith Hickox, Joint Forces Headquarters, Pennsylvania National Guard.)
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Mike Lavers, sleep technician, and Sgt. 1st Class Annabelyn Verdeflor, noncommissioned officer in charge of the Pulmonary Clinic, look over the components of a home healthcare kit as part of the COVID-19 Remote Monitoring Program, a joint effort of the Virtual Medical Center and Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Dec. 16, 2020. (Photo by Elaine Sanchez, Brooke Army Medical Center.)
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