Naval Hospital Pensacola Story Archive
'Damage Control' Surgeries and Medevacs (26 December 2007)
Critical Care Nurse, Lt. Cmdr. Brent Lynn has been in the U.S. Navy more than 19 years – nine as an enlisted Hospital Corpsman, but most of that time was spent with the Marine Corps on the ground.
Fighting to Save Lives (26 December 2007)
More than 62 years ago, a Navy pharmacist mate -- forerunner of today's hospital corpsman -- was the lone Sailor among a handful of Marines made famous by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi."
Navy Medicine Learns Under Fire (4 January 2008)
Marines and Navy servicemen are brothers- and sisters-in-arms and together defend America. This ideal has created the Navy-Marine Corps team that has been successful in operations throughout history.
NH Pensacola Deployed Group Returns Home (20 February 2008)
Eight personnel from the Naval Hospital (NH) Pensacola command returned to their home bases Feb. 18 Pensacola; Meridian, Miss.; and Millington, Tenn., after a six-month deployment.
NH Pensacola Leading with Virtual Training (28 March 2008)
Naval Hospital (NH) Pensacola has become the first non-surgical residency military medical facility to begin simulated laparoscopic surgery training in a continuing-education program, for both surgeons and non-surgeons.
A chaplain at Naval Hospital (NH), Pensacola, performed a "blessing of the quilts" on more than a dozen hand-made "Quilts of Valor" April 29, prior to their being distributed to regional service members who have been wounded – both physically and mentally – while in service to the nation.
Corpsman Returns $1K Found Outside Pensacola Base (5 May 2008)
A hospitalman from Naval Hospital Pensacola returned one thousand dollars along with personal effects after finding it scattered outside the Corry Station base while bicycling to work on Feb. 1.
Two corpsmen from Naval Hospital (NH) Pensacola were selected to act as "guardians" on the April 30, Emerald Coast Honor Flight for Northwest Florida World War II veterans. The veterans flew to Washington to visit the World War II Memorial.
The American Board of Perianesthesia Nursing Certification, a nationally-recognized nonprofit organization, announced June 30 that an officer from Naval Hospital Pensacola's was elected to the organization's board of directors for a two-year term beginning July 1.
Military Medicine Teams With VA To Open Joint Out-Patient Facility (19 September 2008)
Representatives from the Department of Defense and Navy medicine joined Sept. 15 with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to officially open Northwest Florida's version of an ongoing national venture of joint healthcare between the cabinet-level organizations.
Naval Hospital (NH) Pensacola completed the renovation and expansion of its sleep studies laboratory March 2.
A Naval Hospital Pensacola Sailor was recently named Navy Medicine Senior Shore Sailor of the Year for 2008 during a Feb. 4 ceremony at the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington.
Air Force Surgical Residency Returns to Navy Teaching Hospital (11 March 2009)
The Air Force's Keesler Medical Center surgical residency program in Biloxi, Miss., has returned to the arena of joint military training with Navy Medicine in Northwest Florida for the first time since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005.
A hospitalman from Branch Medical Clinic at Naval Air Technical Training Command (NATTC)) will be grappling for the Navy as a member of the All-Navy Wrestling team at the Armed Forces Championship in Idaho March 12-16.
The National Consortium of Breast Centers recently announced that Naval Hospital Pensacola's Breast Health coordinator had become a certified breast patient navigator July 2.