SILVERDALE -- Sitting in his living room, wearing a cannula in his nostrils, Al Pinkham watches the evening news while recovering from a bad case of flu. During his 24-year career in the Navy, Pinkham ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The internal medicine clinic at the Navy’s third largest base in the United States is now staffed with one doctor for 2,200 patients, forcing officials to move one-third of the backlog ...

After three months with only one physician assigned to its internal medicine clinic, Naval Hospital Bremerton has announced plans to transfer hundreds of its patients into the civilian health system.

Since closing its labor and delivery unit two years ago, Naval Hospital Bremerton – which once delivered a quarter of Kitsap County’s babies – has relied on St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale to ...