The US military is woefully unprepared for the catastrophic casualties of a major Pacific war
Military healthcare experts told Congress that the current system is simply not able to handle the kind of casualties a major ...
WAVY Navy Ship Salute — U.S.S. Kearsarge
WAVY’s Navy Ship Salute is a feature on WAVY News 10 Today. Each month, in partnership with the U.S. Navy, WAVY-TV 10 will ...
Japan to build hospital ships to boost disaster response in coastal areas: ‘a huge help’
The decision stems from January's Noto Peninsula earthquake, which destroyed communities and limited rescue teams' access ...
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Medicine: Floating Hospital
Dressed in mothballs, the 11,141-ton Navy hospital ship Consolation now rides quietly at a San Francisco pier. But next fall she is scheduled to cast off and establish an imaginative medical ...
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How USNS Comfort hospital ship can treat patients and the coronavirus
The US Navy hospital ship Comfort is now admitting coronavirus patients — but that wasn't the ship's original mission. It was supposed to help New York hospitals overwhelmed by the pandemic by ...
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Medical Ship with 1,000 Beds Sent to Relieve N.Y.C. Hospitals Only Has 20 Patients: Report
A U.S. Naval hospital ship sent to relieve crowded medical centers ... The number of patients on the ship was up from three earlier in the day, and a Navy spokesperson told the Times that staff ...
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Naval Hospital Jacksonville ER staying open 24/7 despite plans to cut hours starting Monday
The hospital cited "temporary staffing issues" as the reason for the initially planned reduction in ER hours. Support from the Defense Health Agency and Navy Medicine allowed the hospital to ...