U.S. Navy honors hospital for supporting COVID-19 operation
The flag recognized the support, leadership and sacrifice of the dedicated employees of USA Health University Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Carol McPhail
cmcphail@health.southalabama.edu
Recently, USA Health neurosurgeon Richard Menger, M.D., M.P.A., presented an American flag from the U.S. Navy to Owen Bailey, M.H.A., F.A.C.H.E., chief executive officer of USA Health. The flag recognized the support, leadership and sacrifice of the dedicated employees of USA Health University Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve Medical Corps, Menger was deployed to New York’s Bellevue Hospital this past spring as part of the Navy Medicine Support Team with Operation Gotham. For 84 days, Menger ran a COVID-19 intensive care unit at Bellevue, where he had more than 300 patient encounters and the deployed medical corps treated approximately 31,000 patients.
Menger is chief of complex spine surgery at USA Health.
