Naval Medical Center San Diego Story Archive
NMCSD Expands C5 Prosthetics Lab (6 October 2012)
Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care (C5) facility is expanding its prosthetics lab by filling the therapy pool to make room for two additional treatment rooms, a check in area, storage space and a second set of parallel bars.
Surgeon General Visits Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton (22 October 2012)
The U.S. Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, toured Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Oct. 18 while visiting various commands on the West Coast.
NMCSD C5 Program Celebrates Five Years (24 October 2012)
Naval Medical Center San Diego's Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care (C5) program celebrated five years of service in caring for wounded, ill, and injured (WII) patients in a weeklong ceremony that ended Oct. 19.
NMCSD's New Head Prosthetist Gets Amputees Moving (1 December 2012)
As children, when we fall off our bikes the first time riding without training wheels, we are encouraged to stand up, dust ourselves off, and get back in the game. As adults, we'll go on to
San Diego Pharmacy Gets a New Prescription For Success (3 December 2012)
Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) main pharmacy is scheduled to undergo a $1.3 million renovation to upgrade and replace the automation dispensing machines beginning January 2013.
NMCSD's Tobacco Cessation Program Works to Kick Bad Habits (7 December 2012)
Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) Health and Wellness Department offers a Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program to help tobacco users kick the habit. The program is free of charge and is open to all eligible beneficiaries on a walk-in basis.
NMCSD Staff Save a Life at the Zoo (11 December 2012)
Two staff members assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) performed successful lifesaving measures during a visit to the San Diego Zoo Nov. 23.
NMCSD's Pathology Program Reaccredited for Two More Years (11 December 2012)
Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) Pathology program obtained a two-year reaccreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) through October 2014.
MCPON Visits Sailors Aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (15 December 2012)
Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton hosted a visit from Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON)(AW/NAC) Mike D. Stevens Dec. 13.
NMCSD's Top Educator Earns National Award (17 December 2012)
One of Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) staff member's is the first military recipient of the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Award.
NMCSD Announces Clinic Name Change and Two New Clinics (20 December 2012)
Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) is in the process of changing the names of three existing outpatient clinics as well as adding two new NMCSD outpatient clinics in the San Diego metropolitan area with grand openings scheduled for February 2013.
USS Higgins Sailors Make the Holidays A Little Brighter for NMCSD Pediatric Patients (28 December 2012)
Sailors from guided-missile destroyer, USS Higgins (DDG 76) donated gifts and food to Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) pediatric hematology and oncology in-patient ward making the holidays a little brighter for the special group of patients Dec. 21.
Virtual Colonoscopies Offered at NMCSD (10 January 2013)
Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) began offering virtual colonoscopies, better known as computed tomography (CT) colonography, to its patients in November 2012.
NMCSD Unveils Internal Medicine Clinic Renovations (17 January 2013)
Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) unveiled upgrades to its Internal Medicine clinic during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Jan. 16.
Naval Medical Center San Diego Celebrates 25th Anniversary (23 January 2013)
Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) commemorated its 25th anniversary in celebration of the hospital's dedication and official opening at the hospital's flagpole Jan. 23.