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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

Lt. Cmdr. Diana Gertsch, the CGCA system owner, is pictured demonstrating how providers will connect with their patients using the virtual appointment technology.

May 18, 2021

Coast Guard Care Anywhere: Virtual medical appointments now available 

You may have recently noticed an email inside your Coast Guard inbox from Coast Guard Care Anywhere (CGCA). This means that the Coast Guard’s telehealth virtual appointments are now available to you as an active duty or a reserve member, once you activate your account.Although in some geographic locations, COVID-19 exposure risks have reduced,

Petty Officer 1st Class Shelby Zaborowski from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater receives the Clinic Health Services Technician of the Year Award for 2020. Zaborowski was recognized for her outstanding direct patient care and mission readiness during Hurricane Dorian response operations in September 2019. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ayla Hudson.

Jan. 29, 2021

Coming soon: Virtual medical appointments 

All active duty members and reservists will get access by April