Story by Bernard Little | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | 02.18.2025
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s own Jenny Vazquez-Robles, who works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), is one of a team of heroes caring for Walter Reed’s “littlest warriors,” ensuring that premature and full-term babies with complications have the best possible start in life. But in recent weeks, the NICU staff’s readiness to respond to any emergency was put......
Story by Bernard Little | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | 10.31.2024
As part of Walter Reed’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)’s celebration of Halloween, staff and parents dressed their newborns in festive costumes on Oct. 31. HN Asia Lopez, HN Shae Lopez, and their baby girl, Maylani Lopez, dressed as Star Wars characters, with light sabers and Baby Yoda in tow to the delight of NICU staff members who coordinated the joyful event....
Story by Bernard Little | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | 07.01.2024
Aida Sall Diop and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Alioune Diop welcomed their newborn daughter, Mariam Aliyah, who was born October 31, 2023, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at just 22 weeks and five days gestation, weighing 460 grams (1.01 pounds). She spent five months in Walter Reed’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before being discharged....
Story by James Black | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | 10.31.2023
Inside Walter Reed’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), newborn babies bedecked in festive costumes smiled for their parents and nurses, clamoring for lunch and a Halloween treat....
Story by Senior Airman Melody Bordeaux | 59th Medical Wing | 03.09.2023
The 59th Medical Wing participated for the first time in Texas A&M University’s Disaster Day exercise at College Station, Texas, March 3, 2023. Medical teams from across the 59th MDW came together and worked through real-world scenarios utilizing a Texas Air National Guard C-130J Super Hercules and Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service’s Disaster City training grounds....
Story by Seaman Luke Cunningham | Naval Medical Center San Diego | 12.22.2020
Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) celebrated its newborns during a Christmas Cuties holiday event Dec. 22....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kris Lindstrom | Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth | 12.11.2019
Members of the Junior League of Norfolk-Virginia Beach visited Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Pediatric Ward and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to give gifts to patients and mothers on Dec. 11....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kris Lindstrom | Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth | 10.12.2019
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) welcomed back their little NICU superheroes for the 21st Annual NICU Reunion on Oct. 12....
