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Lt. Michael White, a nurse at Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s intensive care unit, uses telehealth to discuss patient statuses and recommendations with Tiffany Ingram, a nurse at Naval Medical Center San Diego. Telehealth is the use of telecommunications and information technologies to provide health assessment, diagnosis, treatment, consultation, education, and health-related information across distances. White, a native of Boise, Idaho, says, “Telehealth provides us the opportunity to access those critical care resources to help mitigate staffing shortages. From a nursing standpoint, it gives us a second pair of critical care nursing eyes on the patient data to potentially catch any signs or symptoms that might get missed by the assigned nurse.” (U.S. Navy photo by Jacob Sippel, Naval Hospital Jacksonville/Released).

Sept. 27, 2021

Coast Guard Care Anywhere continues to make strides in adoption and use

Coast Guard Care Anywhere (CGCA), our virtual telehealth program, has a team that’s been busy scheduling events and making exciting improvements to the program. Here are some updates on the program and an overview of enhancement releases coming to you soon: CGCA Clinic Visits. CGCA has now been rolled out to every Coast Guard clinic with full

Sept. 24, 2021

DoD365 Update: Updated tools promote collaboration inside and outside the Coast Guard

New changes to DoD365 Team will make it easier to include anonymous users with non-military email addresses in internal Teams meetings with video, chat, and screen-sharing.

Cesar Romero at the controls of Cavalier’s ship’s crane. (Coast Guard Collection)

Sept. 24, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Cesar Romero—a Hollywood star, but just another guy in the Coast Guard

From Hollywood Star to Coast Guard war hero - the story of Cesar Romero.

The crew of a Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescued a swimmer in distress just off Rompe Olas Beach near downtown Aguadilla Sept. 13, 2021. The Coast Guard aircrew deployed their rescue swimmer and a rescue basket to recover the survivor, a woman in her mid thirties, who was flown to Air Station Borinquen, where Emergency Medical Service personnel evaluated her condition before being released after not presenting an injury or medical concern. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Sept. 23, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen aircrew rescues swimmer in distress in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and more.

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen aircrew rescues swimmer in distress in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard, partner agencies conduct mass rescue exercise off San Diego coast; Coast Guard rescues three as vessel sinks off Long Branch, New Jersey; Coast Guard cutter engages in maritime training with Royal Australian Navy; U.S., Canadian crews conduct joint training exercise during Coast Guard Cutter Healy's Northwest Passage transit; Coast Guard continues to support Hurricane Ida recovery efforts.

Sept. 22, 2021

Access to YouTube and social media coming to the Coast Guard

Coast Guard unclassified network will soon support social media websites and commercial email

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Carolyn Parlato, assigned under the 3rd Medical Command, poses in a troop medical clinic in the Central Command Area of Responsibility on Aug. 20, 2020. Parlato serves as a Army Nutritionist or Military Occupation Specialty 65C deployed to the Middle East.

Sept. 17, 2021

What is a “healthy” weight-loss eating plan, anyway?

How choosing an eating pattern can be key to your weight management success

Sept. 16, 2021

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The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge crew offloaded approximately 1,700 kilograms of seized cocaine at Coast Guard Base San Juan Friday, following the disruption go-fast vessel smuggling attempt by Coast Guard and British Virgin Islands authorities near Anegada, British Virgin Islands. The seized cocaine has an estimated wholesale value of approximately $51 million dollars. This disruption and seizure is the result of multi-agency efforts involving the Caribbean Border Interagency Group and the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Sept. 16, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard offloads $51 million in cocaine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following at-sea drug bust near the British Virgin Islands and more

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard offloads $51 million in cocaine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following at-sea drug bust near the British Virgin Islands; Coast Guard rescues stranded man off rocks near Greyhound Rock County Park; Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, “America’s Tall Ship,” is scheduled to arrive in Portsmouth on Sept. 17, 2021; Coast Guard, partner agencies manage oil clean up in Delaware.