Friday Health.mil News Round-Up: Mindfulness-based stress reduction finds a place in the military; USNS Mercy Arrives in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea for Pacific Partnership; Leaders go 'Suits to Scrubs' to improve patient care

Mindfulness-based stress reduction finds a place in the military

Mindfulness-based meditation and the military are generally two things that one would not associate with one another.

But on Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Dr. Valerie Rice, chief of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Human Research and Engineering Directorate Army Medical Department Field Element in San Antonio, has participated in the Army Study Program since 2012.

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USNS Mercy Arrives in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea for Pacific Partnership

The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy ship (T-AH 19) arrived in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, July 5 for the second half of its mission stop in the host nation for Pacific Partnership 2015.

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Leaders go 'Suits to Scrubs' to improve patient care

Brooke Army Medical Center's, or BAMC's, nurse leaders are trading their uniforms for scrubs each month to join their staff on the hospital frontlines. 

The program is known here as "Suits to Scrubs;" however, many are dubbing it BAMC's version of "Undercover Boss," a TV show that features senior executives going undercover in their own companies to identify areas for improvement.

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