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Navy Nurse Corps Celebrates 107th Birthday
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (NNS) -- Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton staff helped the Navy Nurse Corps celebrate 107 years of service with a cake cutting ceremony May 13.
During the ceremony, letters were read from the Surgeon General of the Navy and the heads of the Navy's Nurse Corps, Medical Corps, Medical Service Corps, Dental Corps, Hospital Corps and the Army Nurse Corps thanking the Navy Nurse Corps for their unwavering service.
"Our Navy Nurse Corps is essential to our force health protection and readiness. These men and women ensure we have a healthy force, ready to protect and serve at a moment's notice. They selflessly care for our Sailors, Marines, and their families, around the world, at home, and on the front lines, anytime, anywhere," said Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, Surgeon General of the Navy, in his Navy Nurse Corps birthday message.
The Navy Nurse Corps was established by Congress in May of 1908. In October of 1908, the first nurses, later called "The Sacred Twenty," reported for duty at the Naval Medical School Hospital in Washington D.C., which is now home of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Today more than 4,000 active duty and reserve Navy nurses are serving in operational, humanitarian, and traditional missions on the home front and abroad. These men and women provide professional nursing care in peacetime and wartime under ordinary and extraordinary circumstances.
NHCP currently has 220 military and civilian nurses on staff, which includes licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, and nurse practitioners. These nurses provide care to the hospital's beneficiaries in areas that include Medical Home Port (primary care), the Emergency Department, Occupational Health, the Ambulatory Procedure Unit, the Operating Room, and the Branch Health Clinics.
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