Monday Health.mil News Round-Up: Building Relationships at Heart of Career Building up the Military Health System; National Endowment for the Arts Partners with Military to Heal Invisible Wounds; TBI Awareness: Memorial Box (video); Specialists Do a Little of Everything to Get TBI Patients Care [Q&A]

The following articles were recently posted on Health.mil:

Building Relationships at Heart of Career Building up the Military Health System
March 27, 2015

During 40 years of federal service, Allen “Al” Middleton held many titles: deputy director, deputy assistant secretary of Defense, military treatment facility commander, assistant surgeon general and chief financial officer. Throughout it all Middleton, the first deputy director of the Defense Health Agency, has always made it a point to get to know those he’s worked with on a first-name basis.

Full story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/03/27/Building-Relationships-at-Heart-of-Career-Building-up-the-Military-Health-System

 

National Endowment for the Arts Partners with Military to Heal Invisible Wounds
March 27, 2015

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is using art therapy to help military service members recover from the “invisible” wounds of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The NEA funds therapists in the military’s TBI treatment centers at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) on the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center campus in Bethesda, Maryland, and at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Full story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/03/27/National-Endowment-for-the-Arts-Partners-with-Military-to-Heal-Invisible-Wounds

TBI Awareness: Memorial Box (video)
March 27, 2015

US Army Sgt Fox explains how his memorial box has helped him heal and remember meaningful events and people in his life.
Link: www.health.mil/Reference-Center/Videos/2015/03/27/TBI-Awareness-Memorial-Box

Specialists Do a Little of Everything to Get TBI Patients Care [Q&A]
March 26, 2015

Harold Thibodeaux, a TBI recovery support specialist since 2008 at San Antonio Military Medical Center, Texas, talks about his work.
Full story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/03/26/Specialists-Do-a-Little-of-Everything-to-Get-TBI-Patients-Care