Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms

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The First Friday Award Ceremony recognizes the awards, achievements and milestones of our active-duty and civilian Navy team. Held on the first Friday of the month (usually), the ceremony begins with a robust recitation of the Corpsman Creed, followed by a reading of the names of our deployed shipmates. This First Friday Award Ceremony, Feb. 4, was officiated by Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Twentynine Palms Commanding Officer, Captain Grant C. Wallace, Executive Officer, Captain Aaron D. Werbel, and Command Master Chief, HMCM Mary A. Matthews. This award ceremony also included the frocking ceremony of two Sailors pinned to the next highest rank. (U.S. Navy photos by Dave Marks, NHTP PAO; released)

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command 29 Palms Commanding Officer, Captain Grant C. Wallace, presented Hospitalman Tanisha Clarke with her end-of-tour Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal during a hospital quarterdeck ceremony Dec. 1. HN Clarke, from Atlanta, Georgia, has been in the Navy for three years and eight months. She arrived at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms in September of 2019 and was assigned to the Occupational Health Department. She earned her certifi...cations as both an audio technician and spirometry (pulmonary function) technician. HN Clarke’s outstanding work ethic, superb job efficiency and leadership qualities were recognized and she was assigned as Work Center Supervisor for the Occupational Health Department. During this time she also earned her medical-assistant certification. In January 2021, she joined the Command Covid-19 Vaccination Team and led 18 enlisted personnel in the inoculation of 19,567 service members and beneficiaries throughout the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. (Photograph by Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Jaclyn Arrowyave. Released). See more

DIRECTORATE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AWARDED SURGEON GENERAL’S POWER AWARD The Navy Surgeon General’s priorities are the four P’s: People, Platforms, Performance and Power. The Surgeon General’s Power Award was presented to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command, Twentynine Palms Directorate for Public Health (DPH) Feb 1. NMRTC Twentynine Palms Commanding Officer, Capt. Grant Wallace, presented the award to Lt. Jordan Koyle, who is acting Director while DPH Director, Lt. Cmdr.... Nikki Pritchard, is deployed in support of COVID-19 relief. This is for the whole department and it shows the tremendous job the individual departments, Hearing Conservation, Preventive Medicine, Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene and Health Promotions have performed throughout the COVID-19 crisis, Wallace said. The Surgeon General’s Power Award reads: Presented to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Twentynine Palms Directorate for Public Health for leveraging available assets to provide high-quality readiness services despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Acting as a force multiplier, the team administered 21,000 COVID-19 vaccinations, contact traced 1,172 COVID-19 positive cases and tracked personnel through quarantine and isolation. In addition, the team continued to meet mission requirements by maintaining normal operations to include, audiograms, industrial hygiene surveys, occupational medicine evaluations, establishment inspections and water testing to support medical readiness. The efforts of the NMRTC Twentynine Palms Directorate for Public Health team were in complete alignment with the Surgeon General’s priorities and deserve special recognition for a job well done. Bravo Zulu! Signed, B.L. Gillingham Rear Admiral, Medical Corps United States Navy Surgeon General See more

Lt. Renee Crisman, Medical Service Corps, and Ens. Jochelle Malcalma, registered nurse, deployed to the San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., as part of the FEMA support of civilian hospital operations to assist with the critically-ill COVID-19 influx. They spent their Christmas assisting patients and undergirding the beleagured local clinic staff. Crisman and Malcalma have returned to New Mexico and are assisting staff at the University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, where, as the reporter states: "The hospital continues to operate under crisis standards of care at between 130 and 140 percent capacity." According to the report, their team is a "major morale booster." Please see the clip below featuring Ens. Malcalma. https://www.kob.com//unmh-thankful-for-us-navy-t/6374942/

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