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  • June MHS Message - Moving from Healthcare to Health – Operation Live Well

    Military Health System Team-As military health professionals, we are called upon to be both healers and leaders.Paramount to our strategic priorities is the core mission to ensure the health and readiness of our forces. As leaders we have more than an obligation to ensure health and readiness, we

  • SecDef: DOD welcomes Supreme Court decision

    Defense Department officials will move forward in making benefits available to all military spouses, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a statement issued after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act.The law had prevented federal agencies from offering all of the same

  • 48 selected for nurse commissioning program

    Four dozen Airmen have been selected for the calendar year 2013 Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today.The NECP selection board meets annually in May to review records and identify the top applicants for a commissioning opportunity in this critical

  • Operation Pacific Angel 13-3 wraps up in Vietnam

    Members of the U.S. military and Vietnam People's Army wrapped up Operation Pacific Angel 13-3 June 17, after conducting humanitarian assistance efforts for six days in Dong Hoi, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. Fifty three U.S. military members joined approximately 15 members of the VPA and more than

  • New Horizons help Belizeans see more clearly

    U.S. military medical personnel partnered with the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired and the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga, Belize, to conduct an ophthalmology medical readiness training exercise May 31 through June 14.Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine dealing with the functions,

  • Ribbon cutting reveals new advancements, VA partnership at medical group

    The 325th Medical Group reveals renovations, new technology and new partnerships during a ribbon cutting ceremony at the radiology department June 6.The group completed renovation to the ambulance services department, and with the help of the Department of Veterans Affairs received new magnetic

  • Secure Messaging streamlines

    Long lines, paperwork, waiting in a room to wait in another smaller room, all to ask a simple question about health -- there must be an easier way.Fortunately, there is.MiCare mitigates the process through easy access to a healthcare professional on the internet.Secure messaging is available to

  • Top Air Force nurse visits WHASC

    Maj. Gen. Kimberly Sinischalchi, Assistant Air Force Surgeon General of Medical Force Development and Nursing Services, briefs members during an All Corps, All Call at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland June 5. The event was held to address changes in the

  • Soldiers receive hands-on training at Battlefield Nursing Course

    Capt. Holly Griffith places a pulse monitor on a mannequin during a critical care simulation exercise April 24 at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio- Lackland, Texas. The training is part of the pre-deployment Battlefield Nursing Course designed to teach current

  • Chief nurse candidates must submit applications by May 31

    Statements of intent for officers interested in chief nurse positions are due May 31, Air Force Personnel Center officials said May 20. The nurse corps development team will convene in June to select candidates for projected calendar year 2014 openings."There are 86 chief nurses -- one in each

  • "Cookie Caper" to teach research strategies

    Keesler Medical Center nurses are using a fun way to introduce basic research strategies to staff nurses and medical technicians. The 81st Medical Group Evidence-Based Practice Nursing Research Function members will conduct a "Cookie Caper" from 1-3 p.m, May 8 during which 52-60 randomly-chosen

  • Air Force Medical Service now registering pediatric patients in MiCare

    The Air Force Medical Service is now registering children in its web-based secure messaging health application called MiCare.MiCare allows beneficiaries to communicate securely and privately with their health care teams anywhere and anytime. The secure tool is now available to more than 70 percent

  • Developing Standardization Throughout the MHS

    Military Health System Team-The need for standardization across the Military Health System is vital to our strength and efficiency as we meet our mission and move forward to provide world-class health care to our Service members and beneficiaries. After more than a decade of war, we have seen that

  • Air Force nurses and medical technicians are saluted

    The Air Force Medical Service is celebrating Nurse and Medical Technician week May 6 - 12. This year's event is themed "delivering quality and innovation in patient care." "Nurses and technicians touch the lives of many people, in many different ways," said Col Jennifer Agulto, 82nd MDG deputy

  • Teamwork, technology allows Kandahar C-130J AE crew to save a life

    On the battlefield of northern Afghanistan in late March, an Air Force combat controller was shot by the enemy through the right thigh, opening up a large wound and fracturing his femur. The Airman was rushed to a hospital at Mazar-e Sharif, where he was operated on in an effort to save his leg and

  • Swab your cheek, save a life

    Bone marrow is paramount in the treatment of those with leukemia, aplastic anemia or other fatal blood diseases and the C.W. Bill Young Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program is a DoD lead program bringing bone marrow registration directly to service members. "A lot of people have a

  • Medical appointment reminders available via TRICARE Online

    Have you or your family members ever missed a medical appointment at the your clinic? Would a text-message or e-mail reminder have helped you remember? If you answered yes to either of these questions, we have a solution for you. TRICARE Online, which allows beneficiaries the ability to schedule,

  • AF medic receives medal for courage under fire

    Senior Airman Daniel Shimanski, 436th Medical Operations Squadron emergency medical technician, was awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal April 5, 2013, at the base theater on Dover Air Force Base, Del. The AFCAM recognizes any Air Force military member who has been under direct and hostile fire