Whether you’re seeing the dentist for a routine checkup or getting emergency dental care, the TRICARE Dental Program (TDP) covers a wide variety of dental services. It’s important to know which services TDP covers before your next dental visit.

We could all use a refresher every now and then. Watch this video on the 2023 pharmacy changes. For more information, please visit https://newsroom.tricare.mil/Articles/Article/3252509/4-changes-coming-to-tricare-pharmacy-program-in-2023

TRICARE develops pilots and demonstrations to test new medical services, treatments, and approaches. These include initiatives for autism care, childbirth support, and low back pain. Certain groups have the chance to benefit from these services during an evaluation period. You should consider which ones may be helpful for you or a family member.

Are you or your sponsor getting ready to retire? Now’s a great time to make sure your TRICARE coverage will be ready too. Join us for a webinar, “Using TRICARE After Retirement,” on Thursday, March 30, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. TRICARE experts will walk you through your TRICARE plan options and what you need to do avoid a gap in health coverage. You’ll also have an opportunity to ask questions. Sign up now to attend.

Fourteen expectant mothers joined Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Women’s Health Center staff for the first Centering Pregnancy session since 2020 at the hospital March 22. Designed by the Centering Healthcare Institute, a non-profit organization that provides more effective prenatal care training to hospitals such as CRDAMC, Centering Pregnancy is group prenatal care bringing women out of examination rooms and into a more comfortable group setting.

The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center hospital staff was excited to invite the community back to its eighth annual Baby Expo at the main hospital March 11. The expo was the first since 2019 due to COVID-19 and is designed to provide health education and promotion of various perinatal topics for new and expectant parents, beneficiaries who are pregnant, post-partum or who have delivered within the past year.

A team of Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Soldiers prepared a rigorous training event for its medics to test their adaptability, and challenging them both physically and mentally during a Best Leader Competition Feb14-17.

In a test of physical and mental endurance, 18 medical leaders from the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center demonstrated their Soldier skills during the 2023 Best Leaders Competition, Feb. 17. The winners of this competition: Capt. Michael Stangroom, physical therapist; Staff Sgt. Phillip Hubbard, radiologist specialist; and Spc. Caitlyn Rishell, nutrition specialist, will now move on to represent CRDAMC at the Medical Readiness Command, West Best Medic Squad Competition later this year.

We could all use a refresher every now and then. Watch this video on the 2023 pharmacy changes. For more information, please visit https://newsroom.tricare.mil/Articles/Article/3252509/4-changes-coming-to-tricare-pharmacy-program-in-2023

The Defense Health Agency inTransition program is a free, confidential program that offers specialized coaching and assistance for active-duty service members, National Guard members, reservists, veterans and retirees who need access to mental health care when: relocating to another assignment; returning from deployment; transitioning from active duty to reserve component or reserve component to active duty; preparing to leave military service; any other time they need a new mental health provider or need a provider for the first time.

The easiest way to access your medical records is through Military Health Systems (MHS) Genesis. Update all your contact information on DEERS before logging into MHS Genesis, if not it can cause a delay or issue with claims, referrals, or delivery of home prescriptions. Learn more at www.health.mil/MHSGenesis

Blood is being collected to be shipped out all over the world and we have Army, Air Force, Navy and DOD civilians acting as the local community. Now more than ever, especially in the pandemic, we need to donate and give blood as there has been a shortage of blood donors. What better time than on National Blood Donor Month?