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by Steve Pivnick, 81st Medical Group Public Affairs KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- Four "Dragon Medics" have been selected for the Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program.
 Four “Dragon Medics” have been selected for the Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program. Left, Staff Sgts. Alana Rayon, 81st Medical Operations Squadron, and Jessica Shealey, 81st Dental Squadron; Senior Airman Rupert Laco, 81st Inpatient Operations Squadron; and Tech. Sgt. Donelle Clark, 81st Surgical Operations Squadron, learned they were accepted June 10 and begin begin the two-year program in August. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)
Senior Airman Rupert Laco, 81st Inpatient Operations Squadron; Staff Sgts. Alana Rayon, 81st Medical Operations Squadron, and Jessica Shealey, 81st Dental Squadron; and Tech. Sgt. Donelle Clark, 81st Surgical Operations Squadron, learned they were accepted June 10 and begin begin the two-year program in August.
They'll be commissioned second lieutenants in the Air Force upon graduation and successful completion of their Nursing Licensing Boards.
Following commissioning, they will attend Commissioned Officer Training at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., and nurse transition training at a military treatment facility offering this program.
Airman Laco will attend the University of South Alabama School of Nursing. He earned his associate's degree in applied sciences from the Community College of the Air Force and received an associate's degree from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Airman Laco, originally from the Republic of the Philippines, also has an associate's degree in nursing from the University of Perpetual Help in the Philippines. He has been a member of the Air Force since March 2007 and at Keesler since October 2007.
Sergeant Shealey has been an Airman for six years and at Keesler more than a year. Other assignments include Hill AFB, Utah, and Eielson AFB, Alaska. |
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By Bill Snethen, MC4 Public Affairs At two camps and 30 remote sites dispersed along the eastern side of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, more than 2,250 people help monitor the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Established in 1982, the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) is an independent international peacekeeping force. Service members from 12 countries and civilians from seven nations, including the U.S., remain dedicated to that task. There, a team of culturally diverse medical professionals support the MFO mission. In the midst of such diversity lies a common goal of good health with one technology as the information sharer—Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4). While the U.S. military globally deploys systems to capture electronic medical records (EMRs), including 200 Army medical treatment facilities throughout Southwest Asia (SWA), the MFO mission provides a sample of how a diverse group of military providers can utilize one system to achieve EMRs. From April 2008 through May, clinical teams on the peninsula digitally charted 11,800 patient records. While that workload pales by comparison to a typical combat support hospital in Afghanistan, the technology has helped to unify the transnational team trying to share medical data.
“Having providers on staff from the various nations extends the medical capabilities of the clinic,” said CPT Randolph Taylor, physician with the 1st U.S. Army Support Battalion and officer in charge of the North Camp clinic. “The EMR systems allow for the continuity of medical care throughout the force.”
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By: Lorin T. Smith, Madigan Healthcare System Strategic Communication Office Madigan Healthcare System wants to let the thousands of spouses and children of deployed service members know that they have not been forgotten, and behavioral health help is here for them thanks to the Child and Family Assistance Center. Better known as CAFAC, the new Madigan pilot program’s goal is to incorporate three existing Family-based behavioral health departments — Family Assistance for Maintaining Excellence, the Child Guidance Clinic and the School-based Behavioral Health Program — and have them be a fully-functioning one-stop shop under one head and have one phone number that gives providers, Families and patients the care they need. “Soldiers can use Soldier Readiness Service and Soldier Evaluation for Life Service, but what about Family members? They are our main focus at CAFAC,” said Director Dr. Lindsay Paden. CAFAC came about due to the difficulty experienced by Families’ inability to find care within the base’s myriad behavioral health care services, Paden said. That’s why CAFAC leadership has decided to redesign the services under three sections: Adult Services, Child and Adolescent Services and School Behavioral Health Program Services. |
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