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High school students witness the capabilities of a medical simulation manikin during a STEM Fair event at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune on Nov. 1, 2024. Students toured the NMCCL Healthcare Bioskills and Simulation Center as part of their visit to the medical center.

Nov. 27, 2024

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune simulation center seeking full accreditation following successful first year training health care workers

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina — The Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune Healthcare and Bioskills Simulation Center received provisional accreditation though the Society of Simulation and Healthcare in October 2024. Next, the center will prepare for pursuance of full accreditation in 2025.

NMCCL recognized for quality care

Nov. 18, 2024

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune receives highest grade for safety, top-quality care

The Defense Health Agency announced Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune as one of 15 hospitals awarded an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for Fall 2024 after NMCCL demonstrated a continued commitment to safe, high-quality care and transparency.

EMU Homecoming

Nov. 17, 2024

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune welcomes home Sailors supporting medical forces in Middle East operations

Expeditionary Medical Unit 10 Golf (EMU 10G), Rotation 16 concluded an eight-month deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in the Middle East with a homecoming celebration on November 16, 2024.

Dr. Tom Johnson, a neurologist and retired U.S. Navy captain from the Intrepid Spirit Center, was named among the awardees in the Defense Health Network (DHN) Atlantic’s Joint Outpatient Experience Survey (JOES) “Best of the Best” report.

Nov. 8, 2024

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune staff among ‘Best of the Best’

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune (NMCCL) staff are being recognized for their outstanding work in the Defense Health Network (DHN) Atlantic’s Joint Outpatient Experience Survey (JOES) “Best of the Best” report for the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2024.

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune's Transfer Center incorporates Carter kits for special needs patients.

Oct. 30, 2024

NMCCL Transport Center receives kits to help patients with special needs

Camp Lejeune, NC — The Transport Center at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune (NMCCL) now have five specially-designed kits to help in transporting patients with special needs. The “Carter Kits” are part of a grant from North Carolina’s Office of Emergency Medical Services and are used to offer comfort to patients with spectrum disorders.

Hospital Corpsman Second Class Wraeshaun Golden

Oct. 24, 2024

Advanced technical skills allow navy medicine to support global operations

Camp Lejeune, NC — Navy Medicine Training Support Command (NMTSC) Detachment Camp Lejeune is developing tactically proficient, combat-credible medical forces by providing quality training programs that support the Defense Health Agency and Navy Medicine mission.

Cmdr. Louis Lewandowski (left front), an Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo orthopedic trauma surgeon, works with Hospital Corpsman Second Class Brandon Cassidy (left back) and Honduran orthopedic residents to place a femoral external fixator on a trauma patient in the operating room at Hospital Escuela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sep. 17, 2024. In collaboration with joint forces and the partner nation, EMF Kilo conducted its first orthopedic surgical mission alongside Hospital Escuela medical staff treating and performing surgical procedures on patients with oncologic or orthopedic traumatic injuries. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Sheree Blackwell)

Oct. 2, 2024

Expeditionary Medical Forces provide care for partner nation, raises health security and capabilities

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) Kilo personnel partnered with Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF) for a Global Health Engagement (GHE) at Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sept. 14-28, 2024.

Cmdr. Jeremy Blythe, a chaplain with Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, instructs an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) lesson during a suicide prevention workshop at John A. Lejeune Education Center on September9, 2024. The workshop teaches participants to recognize and intervene in situations where someone may be considering suicide.

Sept. 13, 2024

Navy Chaplains lead suicide prevention workshops at Camp Lejeune

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina — September is recognized nationally as Suicide Prevention Month and Navy Chaplains at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina hosted an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshop to train attendees to recognize early warning signs of self-harm/suicidal thoughts and how to intervene.

Exercise Global Medic 24

Sept. 6, 2024

Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo Sailors hone skills at Global Medic 24

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN — U.S. Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo integrated with U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve 4th Medical Battalion to participate in Exercise Global Medic 2024, an annual multinational, multicomponent collective training exercise that ran from Aug. 3-16 in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune Director/Commander Capt. Anja Dabelić (far left) and Mr. Charles White, HonorBridge representative (far right), join Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune employees with the Transfer Center, Intensive Care Unit, and nursing teams to receive the “Guiding Light Award” on Aug. 22, 2024. The award is given by HonorBridge, the largest organ procurement organization in the states of North Carolina and Virginia, to facilities that provide dedicated, compassionate care to organ donors. NMCCL cared for a Marine earlier this year whose final act was the selfless gift of organ donation.

Aug. 30, 2024

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune recognized for care of organ donor

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina —  Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune staff members were recognized by HonorBridge, the largest organ procurement organization in the states of North Carolina and Virginia, for their compassionate care of an organ donor.

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