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Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval in mid-September, 2025, after a rigorous onsite review. This prestigious accreditation recognizes the clinic’s commitment to providing safe, high-quality care.

Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point earns The Joint Commission's gold seal of approval

Sept. 12, 2025

Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point's accreditation encompasses the clinic’s Ambulatory, Behavioral Health Care and Human Services programs.


Pictured: Lt. j.g. Victor Torrico, industrial hygiene officer (left), Lt. Jake Odom, physical therapist (center), and Public Health Specialist Tanya Stuckey (right) of Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms at the Emergency Preparedness and Suicide Awareness Event Sept. 10.

Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms supports emergency preparedness and suicide awareness event

Sept. 11, 2025

The event brought together a wide array of resources aimed at strengthening resilience and readiness across the installation.


Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Stewart, the NCO in charge of the DiRaimondo Main Clinic, pins the Expert Field Medical Badge on Staff Sgt. Ezequiel Bravo, a 68W Combat Medic and NCO in charge of the DiRaimondo Support Clinic. Bravo participated in the Expert Field Medical Badge competition at Fort Carson Aug. 11-15, 2025, and not only earned the badge, he was named Top Doc for the competition.

Army Medic earns top honors in Expert Field Medical Badge competition

Sept. 11, 2025

Earning the Expert Field Medical Badge is the utmost challenge to the professional competence and physical endurance of the soldier medic.


U.S. Air Force Airman Laura Burnett, 28th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron mental health technician, poses in her work center, representing Raider of the Week at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., June 12, 2025.

Explore available counseling and mental health services

Sept. 10, 2025

There are many types of counseling services available to you under TRICARE if you're a service member, family member, or survivor.


Brig. Gen. YR Summons Defense Health Network West, Director, and Medical Readiness Command West, Commanding General, looks back on almost 200 years of Army medical history on Fort Leavenworth during a tour of the facility Sept. 3. Photos of the post’s previous medical commanders displayed in the command hallway date back to 1827.

MRC/DHN West leaders visit Munson Army Health Center

Sept. 10, 2025

Leaders from DHN West and MRC West visited Munson to meet with soldiers, civilian employees, and leaders, and to observe Munson’s medical mission in action.


A slide depicts the location of the 1952 Colony Glacier crash site where a C-124 Globemaster II, carrying 52 military members crashed into Mount Gannett in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska. It’s believed that the crash created an avalanche that, in some places, caused debris to be covered in hundreds of feet of drifted snow.

AFMES accelerates Colony Glacier mission

Sept. 10, 2025

AFMES members gather every summer to look for the remains of 52 military members who crashed into Mount Gannett in the Chugach Mountains.


OPMED team joins DOD partners to preview Navy's newest expeditionary fast transport.

OPMED Systems team joins military partners to preview Navy’s newest expeditionary fast transport

Sept. 09, 2025

Visiting the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport USNS Cody gave the OPMED team an opportunity to engage with joint service and Navy stakeholders.


Members of the 15th Medical Group practice the transfer of patients during Exercise Ultimate Caduceus 25 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii

The 15th Medical Group, USTRANSCOM, and partners test critical medical evacuation capabilities

Sept. 09, 2025

The exercise created a realistic wartime crisis scenario, prompting a large-scale military patient movement response from within the Indo-Pacific.


The eastern bloodsucking conenose, Triatoma sanguisuga, feeds on animals and humans and has a habit of biting humans in the face. There are 11 different naturally occurring species of kissing bug in the U.S., though they thrive in the warmer climates of the southern states. (Defense Health Agency-Public Health graphic illustration by Ethel Kefauver and Graham Snodgrass)

Not all kisses are sweet

Sept. 09, 2025

Kissing bugs can carry a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi that causes the potentially fatal Chagas disease.


 Lt. Cmdr. Sarah Jenkins, Diagnostics & Surveillance department head with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC)’s Navy Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory, prepares to test a sample for the presence of pathogens.

Health Surveillance: Fighting against infectious disease and other threats, keeping the force ready

Sept. 08, 2025

The DHA's Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division provides operational forces with early warning, health threat assessments, and force-readiness data.


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