New unit serves surgery inpatients
First Lt. Lavon Williams, 81st Inpatient Operations Squadron nurse, checks Senior Airman Nancy Gill’s vital signs June 5. Airman Gill, 81st Medical Opera-tions Squadron, was the first surgical inpatient on Ward 5A when the unit opened June 4 at Keesler Medical Center. The unit is now separate from the combined medical-surgical unit that opened in August 2006 when inpatient care returned to the medical center a year after Hurricane Katrina. (U. S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)