Story by John Joyce | Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency | 03.05.2025
The power of a DCSA polygrapher's music to tell real-life stories is resonating throughout an expanding world-wide audience. His latest album – blending soulful melodies with raw, impassioned lyrics - takes listeners on a journey through themes of love, loss and triumph over personal hardships and challenges. Since DCSA polygrapher Mark Pszenny sang “Smokey Bourbon” – a ballad he......
Story by Carol Kaplan | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | 12.17.2024
Through a collaboration agreement with George Washington Hospital, doctors from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. use their in-theater wartime experience to save a Washington, D.C. gunshot victim....
Courtesy Story | Defense Health Agency | 11.27.2024
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program has recognized three Defense Health Agency hospitals for their outstanding surgical care....
Story by Gino Mattorano | Evans Army Community Hospital | 07.25.2024
Many surgery patients at Evans Army Community Hospital now have the option to go home on the same day they have surgery, thanks to the collaborative efforts of the hospital’s Surgery Department, Family Care Ward and the hospital’s workflow committee. While looking for ways to streamline processes and improve workflow, they discovered that many surgery patients, primarily those......
Story by Janet A. Aker | Defense Health Agency | 10.26.2023
The Department of Defense Naval Hospital Pensacola is hosting outpatient surgical care provided by clinicians from the Department of Veterans Affairs for approximately 37,000 Gulf Coast-area veterans’ health care system patients under a new partnership....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Tory Patterson | 59th Medical Wing | 09.14.2023
One year ago, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center expanded its urology services with a historic procedure
Story by Staff Sgt. Kelsey Martinez | 59th Medical Wing | 09.12.2023
Panamax Alpha 2023, an annual ophthalmology Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE), is a joint service exercise led by U.S. Southern Command, aimed to enhance the skills and operational readiness of team members by immersing them in a range of prevalent chronic eye conditions in the region. In July 2023, 32 TriService military members traveled to the Regional Hospital Dr. Luis "Chicho"......
Story by Staff Sgt. Kelsey Martinez | 59th Medical Wing | 07.24.2023
In July 2023, a team of 32 members from the Air Force, Army, and Navy embarked on an Ophthalmology Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE) to Regional Hospital Dr. Luis "Chicho" Fabrega in Santiago de Veraguas, Panama. The annual joint service exercise was led by U.S. Southern Command, aimed to enhance the skills and operational readiness of team members by immersing them in a range of......