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March 16, 2021

NMCP’S RRRT ASSISTS NAVAJO NATION IN COVID-19 RESPONSE

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth — PORTSMOUTH, Va. (March 12, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP)’s Rapid Rural Response Team (RRRT) deployed to Chinle Comprehensive Care Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico to help the Navajo Nation in the fight against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Dec. 16, 2020 to March 12, 2021.

March 10, 2021

NMCP Pediatric Patient Receives Gaming Gift

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth — A patient of Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) Pediatric Oncology Department received a gift from Operation Key West, March 4.

Jan. 12, 2021

NMCP’s SARP Program Cleans Base Shoreline

Portsmouth, VA — PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Jan. 9, 2020) Clarice Lorenzini, Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program (SARP) recreation therapist, alongside her patients, collect trash along the shoreline behind the base gym. Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) SARP program took time out of their day cleaning parts of the shoreline and base perimeter collecting tons of trash and debris. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Imani N. Daniels/Released)

Jan. 11, 2021

NMCP’s Pharmacy Call Center ‘Answers the Call’ in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Portsmouth, VA — PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Jan 8, 2021) – It’s just another day in the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Pharmacy Call Center where staff members answer hundreds of calls a day to initiate and verify prescriptions to one of the densest populations of military beneficiaries during a global pandemic.

Jan. 6, 2021

NMCP’s COVID-19 Task Force Efforts Heat Up for Winter Weather

Portsmouth, VA — Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Coronavirus (COVID-19) task force recently transitioned to working in a centralized, heated tent at NMCP’s COVID-19 Drive Thru Screening and Triage site.

Jan. 4, 2021

Mercy Chefs Delivers Meals to NMCP

Portsmouth, VA — Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) received a special delivery from Mercy Chefs as they assist in the command’s battle against COVID-19, Dec. 29.

Dec. 22, 2020

NMCP Nurse Presented with the DAISY Award

Portsmouth, VA — Ensign Aaron Furr, a Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) registered nurse assigned to the Multiservice Ward (4H), was surprised with NMCP’s DAISY Award during a ceremony Dec. 22. Capt. Lisa Mulligan, NMCP’s commanding officer presented the award.

Dec. 22, 2020

Operation Peace Visits NMCP

Portsmouth, VA — PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Dec. 21, 2020) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Pediatric Inpatient Ward welcomed Operation PEACE on Dec. 21.

Dec. 22, 2020

FIRST EAST COAST SAILOR RECEIVES COVID-19 VACCINE AT NMCP

Portsmouth. VA — Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) Immunization Clinic personnel administered a COVID-19 vaccination to the first East Coast waterfront Sailor, Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Blair Taylor, Dec. 21.

Dec. 22, 2020

NMCP Staff Members Receive COVID-19 Vaccines

Portsmouth, VA — PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Dec. 15, 2020) – – Hospitalman Roman Silvestri administers one of the first COVID-19 vaccines given at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) to Cmdr. Joseph Kotora, Medical Services director, and Emergency Medical Services Medical Director for Naval Medical Forces Atlantic, Dec. 15.