Medical Personnel in Action

Images of medical personnel engaged in various healthcare activities, including eye care, blood donation, and training simulations in diverse settings.

Reportage on the Jeunes Pousses, a follow-up care and pneumo-pediatric rehabilitation unit specialising in climate therapy for asthma. The centre is located in Briançon, Frances highest town, which is part of WHOs Healthy Cities programme. At this altitude the oxygen partial pressure is reduced which has a positive effect on the cardio-vascular system. The concentration of allergens is also reduced. Briançon is one of the top places for high-altitude climate therapy due to its hours of sunlight, almost total lack of fog, its very low hygrometry, its almost total lack of dust mites, the scarcity of damp, its short pollen season and a very low levels of pollution. Karim, 10, suffers from asthma and comes from the Paris region. He arrived at the Jeunes Pousses this year. The children spend the morning and evening in the infirmary. Each child takes a spirometry test before their medication and must note down their forced vital capacity in order to track its evolution.

HN Madishon Taliaferro, a Navy Corpsman with the Naval Reserve Center (NRC), Louisville, KY, checks the lens prescription on a pair of glasses at Kapaa Middle School in Lihue, Hawai'i, on June 11, 2022. Tropicare 2022 is an Innovative Readiness Training exercise and provides real world training in a joint civil and military environment while strengthening the community relationship by providing medical, dental, and optometry services to the people of Hawai'i.

Alexis Rhett, right, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center phlebotomist, grabs gloves before preparing a volunteer for donation at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Feb. 12, 2024. Team Dover collectively donated 31 units of blood during the drive which has the potential to save 63 lives. Air Force

Senior Chief Aviation Electronics Technician Keywana R. Saxby, from Cleveland, Ohio, assigned to aircraft intermediate maintenance department aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), serves fried chicken to the crew aboard the ship in Newport News, Virginia, Oct. 5, 2022. George Washington is conducting a simulated underway to validate shipboard habitability and operational services to ensure the ship meets the final refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) milestones. RCOH is a multi-year project performed only once during a carriers 50-year service life that includes refueling the ships two nuclear reactors, as well as significant repairs, upgrades, and modernization.

PHOTO DATE: 01-26-11LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 29 JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa during Emergency Scenario TrainingWORK ORDER: 00374-BS__SATOSHIEMERTRAINING_01-26-11

Capt. Vanessa Weaver, deputy state surgeon for the Oklahoma Army National Guard, evaluates a simulated casualty during a Regional Emergency Medical Services System training event at the Choctaw Event Center in Durant, Oklahoma, September 21, 2022. (Oklahoma National Guard Photo by Sgt. Reece Heck)

Reportage on the Jeunes Pousses, a follow-up care and pneumo-pediatric rehabilitation unit specialising in climate therapy for asthma. The centre is located in Briançon, Frances highest town, which is part of WHOs Healthy Cities programme. At this altitude the oxygen partial pressure is reduced which has a positive effect on the cardio-vascular system. The concentration of allergens is also reduced. Briançon is one of the top places for high-altitude climate therapy due to its hours of sunlight, almost total lack of fog, its very low hygrometry, its almost total lack of dust mites, the scarcity of damp, its short pollen season and a very low levels of pollution. Karim, 10, suffers from asthma and comes from the Paris region. He arrived at the Jeunes Pousses this year. The children spend the morning and evening in the infirmary. Each child takes a spirometry test before their medication and must note down their forced vital capacity in order to track its evolution.

Orlando, FL, October 9, 2022 - FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opens in Orlando providing multiple services and organizations to help survivor's recovery needs. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. April Grant, 633d Mammography Clinic noncommissioned officer in charge, left, and Jaime Radik, 633d Mammography Clinic lead mammography technician, right, demonstrates how mammograms are performed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Oct. 4, 2022. Mammograms detect breast cancer early, reducing the risk of the disease becoming deadly by 20% to 30%.

U.S. Air Force medical personnel unpacks supplies needed in support of Pacific Angel 22-4 in Baucau, Timor-Leste, Sept. 11, 2022. The operation is scheduled for Sept.12-17 and will focus on capacity building through health services outreach, engineering civic action program construction projects and subject matter expert exchanges.

DATE: 5-8-12LOCATION: Bldg. NW - ISS MockupsSUBJECT: Expedition 35/36 crew training (Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Chris Cassidy) during emergency scenarios training in the ISS mockups with Station Training Lead, Lucia McCullough.

Vice Admiral Thad Allen Visits Hancock County, Mississippi - 26-HK-12-33. Hurricane Katrina

A phlebotomist performs a blood draw for testing, Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center, Fort Meade, Maryland, Feb. 12. (Defense Health Agency

Kissimmee, FL, (Oct. 9, 2022) - FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opens in Kissimmee providing multiple services and organizations to help survivor's recovery needs. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

Juliette Garcia, registered nurse, assembles a nebulizer for a pediatric emergency room patient at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Oct. 13, 2022. The mission of BAMCs Department of Emergency Medicine is to provide world-class emergency care, service, and training.

Princeton, KY, January 22, 2022 -- FEMA Disaster Assistance Specialist Kathy Sayles talks to tornado survivors at a Disaster Recovery Center. The tornado devastated the town in early December. Photo by Liz Roll/FEMA

A local Micronesian medical laboratory technician, left, teaches U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Camille Erespe, from Sacramento, California, middle, and Lt. j.g. Ginger Myers, from Phoenix, how to test for blood types using a reagent at the Chuuk State Hospital in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 16, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Aikeya Conner, 81st Medical Group labor and delivery element chief, and Michelle Weston, 81st MDG labor and delivery nurse, demonstrate medical procedures on an infant training dummy at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, Aug. 30, 2022. The primary mission of the 81st MDG is to maintain medical readiness for worldwide contingencies by providing health care for more than 22,000 enrollees, including almost 4,500 active-duty members.

Doctor using digital tablet with patients

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for touring of the Roy Lester Schneider Hospital, University of Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center, and scenic locales, as well as discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials

220506-N-RG482-0033 (May 6, 2022) BREMERTON, Wash. - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Jose Perez, an x-ray technician assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton, speaks with students at West Sound Technical Skills Centers Professional Medical Careers class about the commands radiology program and department. The visit was part of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program at the command, tailored to bring real-world experience in the medical field to students considering a medical or military career. (Official U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Kyle Steckler/NMRTC Bremerton Public Affairs)

Hurricane Wilma, Belle Glade, FL, October 26, 2005 Members of the FEMA Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Oklahoma one, assist the staff of the Glades General Hospital examine to a patient in the emergency room. Hurricane Wilma, the fifth major hurricane of the season, came through this area.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Medical assistant showing medicine to female patient

First Lady Jill Biden participates in a tour Wednesday, April 21, 2021, of First Choice Community Healthcare; South Valley Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Heres the scoopits National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2022! Navy Nurse Corps officers, civil service and contractor nurses at Naval Hospital Bremerton provided an ice cream social as part of their heartfelt thanks to all nurses assigned to the command - as well as those they work with and for - in conjunction with the annual celebration, culminating with the Nurse Corps 114th birthday on May 13, a day after the birthday of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).

Dr. Denise To, Laboratory Manager, an employee at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), lead a tour group during a Papua New Guinea operations summit hosted by DPAA on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 9, 2022. Papua New Guinea National Museum Art Gallery (NMAG) is one of the long-term host nation government partners that assists DPAA in the search for missing U.S. service members. The NMAG has assisted DPAA for over 25 years through contributing to the return and identification of and returning over 320 U.S. service members, which attests to the strong cooperation forged from years of working together on this noble mission. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Majuro Atoll, of the Republic of Marshall Islands

Airmen from the 436th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron use a cold compression machine during the Human Performance and Wellness Event at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Sept. 8, 2022. Hosted by the 436th OMRS human performance flight, the event featured walk-in physical therapy appointments, glucose tests, a running clinic and booths from agencies around base.

Hurricane Ike, Galveston Island, TX, September 18, 2008 A Disaster Medical Assistance Team member from Iowa-1 works on a patient at the University of Texas Medical Branch where a mobile emergency room is set up following the disruption of power and services due to Hurricane Ike. Galveston Island, TX, September 18, 2008--A Disaster Medical Assistance Team member from Iowa-1 works on a patient at the University of Texas Medical Branch where a mobile emergency room is set up following the distruption of power and services due to Hurricane Ike.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). 18-month-old baby having convultions due to fever.

Mikayla Anthony sets aside supplies for the upcoming weekend at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Sep. 14, 2022. The mission of BAMCs Department of Nutritional Medicine is to provide high quality medical nutrition therapy and culinary services to service members, their families, and the community while developing elite nutrition professionals.

060509-N-1577S-081. Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)

Reportage in the Obesity Clinic (IPCO) in Mulhouse, France. Physical exercise session with a masseur-physiotherapist. Patients must attend these sessions before and after surgery for obesity. The aim is to get the patient used to doing regular physical exercise again.

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding, Coralville, Iowa, July 5, 2008 Aida Davis, a FEMA Mitigation Specialist takes information from a local resident and explains to her disaster preparedness, flood insurance and mold and mildew in the aftermath of the floods that devastated a large part of this area in mid June.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

African american patient filling in report papers

Hurricane Ike, Galveston Island, TX, September 18, 2008 Andrew Sweeney, paramedic with Iowa-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team gives a patient a tetanus shot at the University of Texas Medical Branch in the area impacted by Hurricane Ike. The DMAT has set up a mobile emergency room to assist patients in areas impacted by Hurricane Ike. Galveston Island, TX, September 18, 2008--Andrew Sweeney, parmedic with Iowa-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team gives a patient a tetnus shot at the University of Texas Medical Branch in the area impacted by Hurricane Ike. The DMAT has set up a mobile emergency room to assist patients in areas impacted by Hurricane Ike.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

220405-N-AU520-1049SAN DIEGO (April 5, 2022) Navy Talent Acquisition Group Portland's Educator Orientation Visit (EOV) tours Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) San Diego's Bio-Skills and Simulation Center April 5. EOVs are tours where deans, professors, educators and executives visit military bases to become familiarized with what professional military life is like. NMRTC San Diegos mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality healthcare services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research. NMRTC San Diego employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians, and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere.

Reportage: Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller talks with Navy Hospitalman Samantha Alvarez, after she administered a COVID-19 vaccine to him, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2020.

Brigid Herrick, left, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's chief experience officer, listens to a student speak during the inaugural Human Experience Re-imagined course at Walter Reed in Bethesda, Maryland, Jan. 24, 2024. The newly designed course which is the first-of-its-kind within the Military Health System, was designed and facilitated through the Chief Experience Office, offering five sessions between Jan. 18 and Jan. 31, focusing on improving both the experiences of health care workers and beneficiaries.

FORT CARSON, Colo. A mother visits the Army Public Health booth to learn more about the programs they have to offer. Evans Army Community Hospital hosted a Baby Expo Sept. 17, 2022, for expecting mothers and mothers of young children to gain more information about what the community can offer to their Family.

Students fabricate dental appliances during classes at the Medical Education and Training Center (METC), Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, October 20, 2022. The METC on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, trains enlisted medical professionals in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. One of METCs 48 programs of instruction is the multi-service Dental Laboratory Technology program in which Army, Navy, and Air Force students learn how to fabricate complete dentures, Removable Partial Dentures (RPD) and treatment appliances, crowns and bridges, metal-ceramic restorations, and dental implants using both analog and digital dental technology processing methods. Graduates of the program wishing to pursue an academic degree can utilize the METC Degree Bridge Program, which applies college credit for military training and work experience.

Reportage in a post-natal clinic in Champigny, France. Since leaving the neonatal unit, the twins (3-months old) are checked every week to follow their growth. The waiting room.

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (Aug. 5, 2022) - Lt. Elizabeth Jeffers, from Brazil, Indiana, left, works with local nurses on how to use an arterial line during an intensive care unit (ICU) workshop in ICU Room One aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22). Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

060704-N-3153C-031. Complete Scene Caption: US Navy (USN) Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) Keri Krisiak compliments a young boy on a drawing he made while he recovers from a cleft lip surgery aboard the USN Military Sealift Command (MSC) USNS MERCY ((T-AH 19) during the ship's humanitarian and civic assistance visit at Chittagong, Bangladesh (BGD). The USN ship is on a scheduled five-month deployment in Southeast Asia. MERCY's mission is being carried out in close coordination and partnership with local medical care professionals and civilian volunteers from Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), Operation Smile and other civilian organizations. Some of the civilian volunteers include plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and doctors from the US, Austraila and Canada. Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (April 14, 2022) - Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Ryan King, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Patuxent River, participates in the MEDLANT Sailor of the Year board, April 14, 2022. Naval Medical Forces Atlantic provides well-trained medical experts, operating as high performance teams, to project medical power in support of naval superiority.

Healthcare professionals collaborating on digital patient records.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Charles Affizie, left, from Hagerstown, Maryland, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), prepares to perform a routine dental x-ray on Operations Specialist 3rd Class Jordan Ruossell, from Orlando, Florida, on the floating accommodation facility, in Newport News, Virginia, Sep. 21, 2022. The John C. Stennis is in Newport News Shipyard working alongside NNS, NAVSEA and contractors conducting Refueling and Complex Overhaul as part of the mission to deliver the warship back in the fight, on time and on budget, to resume its duty of defending the United States.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Camille Erespe, from Sacramento, California, tests a blood sample using an i-STAT portable blood analyzer at the Chuuk State Hospital in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 16, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

Tucson, Arizona, Dr. Gregory Hess, chief medical examiner for Pima County, examines the personal effects found with the body of an unidentified migrant who died crossing the border from Mexico through the Arizona desert. Objects found with the body are used to try to establish identity.

220712-N-VQ947-1108 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 12, 2022) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Andrea Thomas, left, from Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Brittany Nguyen, right, from Sioux City, Iowa, stabilize a simulated patient during a medical evacuation drill conducted aboard San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 in Southern California. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

The Saxon Corona Test Centres for air travellers officially go into operation on Monday, 3 August, at Dresden and Leipzig Halle Airports. Employees of KV Saxony take the tests

Healthcare professionals collaborating on a digital tablet at a busy clinic.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for touring of the Roy Lester Schneider Hospital, University of Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center, and scenic locales, as well as discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials

110630-F-ET173-229PUERTO SAN JOSE, Guatemala (June 30, 2011) Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Shannon Sensenig, from Terre Hill, Penn., takes a patient's medical records to a physician at the Los Angeles surgical screening site during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Reportage at Pause Diabolo, a risk reduction centre for drug users, in Lyon, France. Pause Diabolo sees drug users as part of a national French policy to reduce health hazards. This multidisciplinary helps deals with all aspects of life that are affected by drug use. It involves making risk reduction equipment available, helping with access to care, hygiene help, social mediation and helping gain access to benefits as well as social and professional reintegration. An educator collects containers full of used equipment, in a homeless shelter.

Reportage on the Jeunes Pousses, a follow-up care and pneumo-pediatric rehabilitation unit specialising in climate therapy for asthma. The centre is located in Briançon, Frances highest town, which is part of WHOs Healthy Cities programme. At this altitude the oxygen partial pressure is reduced which has a positive effect on the cardio-vascular system. The concentration of allergens is also reduced. Briançon is one of the top places for high-altitude climate therapy due to its hours of sunlight, almost total lack of fog, its very low hygrometry, its almost total lack of dust mites, the scarcity of damp, its short pollen season and a very low levels of pollution. Karim, 10, suffers from asthma and comes from the Paris region. He arrived at the Jeunes Pousses this year. The children spend the morning and evening in the infirmary to take their medication.

Teen with Cerebral Palsy using mailbox

VING Ms. Williana Doctrine, the sexual assault response coordinator, greets personnel and hands out teal ribbons to incoming travelers kicking off SAAPM 2022, April 1.The month of April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM). The Virgin Islands National Guard has zero tolerance for any acts of sexual assault or violence and takes every opportunity to make awareness of this terrible crime.

Spc. Abner Torres from the Puerto Rico Army National Guard, using the new personal protective equipment, explains the next steps to a person after administering the vaccination against COVID-19 in the PRNG vaccination center in Caguas, Puerto Rico, March 1, 2021. The PRNG acquired a new PPE to better serve the island's population against COVID-19. The PRNG medics personnel in Caguas is the first team using the new PPE.

221027-N-LZ409-1035 KEKAHA, HI (Oct. 27, 2022) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Jeremy Lee fills a syringe for a flu shot at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands. PMRF is the world’s largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously.

U.S. Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) Ovidiu Pacurar, the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team (HEART) 2022 chaplain, and 1st. Lt. Emily Seaton, the HEART 22 public affairs officer, unload medical supplies July 23, 2022, at Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. HEART 22 is a Humanitarian Engagements Assistance Response Team, U.S. Southern Command operation that evolved out of the longstanding effort to improve regional prosperity. This operation is a physical representation of partner nation support, in this case through integrated surgical teams and medical equipment to help alleviate strain on the medical system.

Laundry room of the Atelier de l'adage Saporta. Disabled person in charge of laundry and cleaning kitchen and user work clothes.

Kissimmee, FL, (Oct. 9, 2022) - FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opens in Kissimmee providing multiple services and organizations to help survivor's recovery needs. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

FORT BELVOIR, VA. (March 30, 2022)--Staff Members, Market Leadership and community leaders gather to witness the Belvoir Hospital's official announcement of its Level lll Trauma Center verification in an unveiling ceremony March 30, 2022. This verification by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) certifies the organization's ability to provide prompt assessment, surgery, intensive care and emergency operations. To date, this medical treatment facility is the only community hospital in the Military Health System to achieve this verification.he Belvoir Hospital is a 120-bed, 1.3 million-square-foot military community hospital that serves a regional population of 250,000 personnel with about 100,000 enrollees receiving inpatient and specialty care services supported by 55 specialty clinics, a Warrior Pavilion (for combat injured/wounded/ ill), Inpatient Addictions Program, and three satellite family health centers at the Pentagon, Dumfries and Fairfax, Va.(Department of Defense photos

VICENZA, Italy - Medical local providers interact with participants during the second Healthcare Expo held at the Vicenza Middle and Elementary multipurpose room in the Villaggio Housing area April 12. After a break due to the pandemic, the providers appreciated the opportunity of this event, which helps create and develop a connection with the American community.Approximately 15,000 U.S. citizens live in Vicenza and its province. Many use Italian services for their primarily health care.

Joseph Jaggers is a medical technician in the Department and Area Laboratory Services Chemistry Laboratory at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Originally from Universal City, Texas, Jaggers has been with Team BAMC for two years and is known for his impressive technical skill set and willingness to always help his teammates when needed.

Navy Lt. j.g. Jill Ciritella, of the Mother Infant Care Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, virtually accepts the Nightingale Award May 10. The nomination submitted for her to receive the award explained she assisted a pre-term mother who was unable to see her baby in the NICU by writing notes from the baby to the mom.

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA, September 8, 2005 -- FEMA Disaster veterinarians check a squirrel that was brought in after Hurricane Katrina. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Ruby Donias, 59th Medical Support Group Ophthalmology administrative technician volunteer, files a follow-up form at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, April 21, 2022. Donias says she volunteers to help alleviate any stress on the workers in the clinic and make patients smile.

New York, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2012 FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, left, talks with FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Michael Byrne, right, during a tour of Bellevue Hospital in lower Manhatten. The hospital was severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy and is in the process of doing abatement and repairs in areas that were flooded during the storm. New York, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2012 --Administrator Craig Fugate, left, talks with FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Michael Byrne, right, during a tour of Bellevue Hospital in Manhatten. The hospital was severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy and is in the process of doing abatement and repairs in areas that were flooded during the storm.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Doctor disinfecting hands against multiresistant bacteria, Germany, Europe

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for touring of the Roy Lester Schneider Hospital, University of Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center, and scenic locales, as well as discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials

President Barack Obama attends a roundtable discussion with health care providers at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. on July 20, 2009.

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 3, 2022) - Hospital Corpsman Chief Melinda Canales, from Quezon Province, Philippines, left, conducts a tour of the biomedical room for the Solomon Islands Biomedical Repair team aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership is a unifying mission that fosters enduring friendships and cooperation among many nations. The years mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Elaina Pea, 81st Diagnostic and Therapeutics Squadron radiology section chief, provides mammography literature to Airmen 1st Class Gabriel Dudley and Verlene Johnson, 81st Dental Squadron dental technicians, during the 11th Annual 81st Medical Group Health Expo inside the Keesler Medical Center auditorium at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, October 7, 2022. The 81st MDG hosted the walk-in event, which included information booths and scheduling appointments for multiple types of cancer and chronic diseases in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Maxanne Groven, 59th Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron Core-Chemistry supervisor, poses for a photo at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, April 19, 2022. Groven is an MHS-GENESIS super user and, according to her supervisor, does not hesitate to help others navigate the new system, assist patients, or support medical laboratory apprentices.

Birchwood Cares Innovative Readiness Training medical mission at the Birchwood Community Center, Birchwood Tenn., June 9, 2022. The medical mission is Department of Defense sponsored training event that links community partners with joint force partners to provide medical care for surrounding communities. The clinics offer dental, medical, optometry, physical and mental health services while simultaneously providing hands on training to joint force partners. (Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Joe Harwood)

Capt. Kim Davis, Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) director, addresses members from The Joint Commission (TJC) after a Morning Colors ceremony on July 22. TJC members include (L-R) Dr Stephen Yoest, TJC physician surveyor, Ms. Terryl Kendricks, RN, TJC team lead, and Ms. Anna Schwarz, RN, TJC nurse surveyor. NMCSD completed the demanding onsite triennial survey by TJC from July 18 to July 22. NMCSDs mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high-quality healthcare services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research. NMCSD employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere.

Team Dover Airmen portraying burn victims seek medical help during a major accident response exercise at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Dec. 7, 2022. The exercise tested the capabilities of the 436th Airlift Wing and the 512th AW.

Ms. Mindy Simonson, Scientific Recovery Expert assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), interacts with a local in Pambaniang village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea on Sep. 6 2022. The investigation team visited multiple areas across the mountainous East Sepik Province in hopes of recovering missing U.S. service members lost during World War II. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

The Training Center Cape May Clinic staff give drive-thru flu shots on base, Oct. 12, 2022.As an armed force of the United States, the nations lead maritimeenforcement agency, and a maritime safety and regulatory agency, our dedicated Coast Guard members are on the front lines every day carrying out global operations and protecting our homeland from constantly evolvingthreats. We must ensure they can focus each day on these difficult missionswith the full knowledge that their health, families, and housing are cared for. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo

Family members who suffered a loss of an infant place a lit lantern in recognition of their loss during the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Ceremony in Clark Auditorium at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Oct. 15, 2022. The ceremony was being held in honor of World Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.

PIO with Red Cross Shelter Coordinator.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Philadelphia, Pa., June 28, 2013 LesleyAnne Ezelle, Regional Disability Integration Specialist, FEMA Region III visits the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Red Cross office where they held a Shelter Sleepover Exercise.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

President Joe Biden tours the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Maryland. From left, Deputy Director of the NIH NIAAID Vaccine Research Center Dr. Barney Graham, Chief Medical Adviser to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, and Senior Research Fellow and Coronavirus Team Lead at the NIAIC Vaccine Research Center Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 7, 2022) - Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Kai Hampden, from Woodbridge, Virginia, right, assists National Referral Hospital Pharmacists in practicing IV preparation aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership is a unifying mission that fosters enduring friendships and cooperation among many nations. The years mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia

President Joe Biden observes dosage preparations during a tour of the vaccination center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021.

Red Cross Shelter in Lafayette.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

The Training Center Cape May Clinic staff give drive-thru flu shots on base, Oct. 12, 2022.As an armed force of the United States, the nations lead maritimeenforcement agency, and a maritime safety and regulatory agency, our dedicated Coast Guard members are on the front lines every day carrying out global operations and protecting our homeland from constantly evolvingthreats. We must ensure they can focus each day on these difficult missionswith the full knowledge that their health, families, and housing are cared for. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo

Smiling doctor and nurse in hospital

The Training Center Cape May Clinic staff give drive-thru flu shots on base, Oct. 12, 2022.As an armed force of the United States, the nations lead maritimeenforcement agency, and a maritime safety and regulatory agency, our dedicated Coast Guard members are on the front lines every day carrying out global operations and protecting our homeland from constantly evolvingthreats. We must ensure they can focus each day on these difficult missionswith the full knowledge that their health, families, and housing are cared for. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo

Staff of Integrative Health and Wellness Services at Walter Reed Bethesda worked at Breast Cancer Awareness Stations at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month during October. Health educators, including Dana Johnson and Adrienne Cobb, as well as volunteers such as Jane Butler, provided staff, patients and visitors information concerning breast cancer screenings, as well as answered questions related to breast cancer, and offered games focused on increasing people's knowledge about the disease. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, established in 1985, focuses on encouraging mammography as the most effective weapon in the fight against breast cancer, as well as breast self-examination.

Kissimmee, FL, (Oct. 9, 2022) - FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opens in Kissimmee providing multiple services and organizations to help survivor's recovery needs. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

CVC Pharmacy giving Johnson & Johnson vaccine to customers, Los Angeles, California.

221204-N-LP924-1248 AZUA, Dominican Republic (Dec. 4, 2022) Local patients prepare to depart a medical site in Azua, Dominican Republic, following medical care provided as part of Continuing Promise 2022, Nov. 4, 2022. Continuing Promise 2022 is a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Chief Nursing Officer for U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa CAPT Sanjuan meets Reiko Namizato, Director of Hokubu Nursing School

A Red Cross worker handing out meals from a disaster services van

Vaccine distribution center in Hoover, Alabama organized by the University of Alabama, Birmingham, UAB.

Ms. Theresa Wood explains the need to remain active every day to maintain health.

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