'Nurse Hero' to Lead Madigan

Posted on: Friday, 25 July 2008, 15:01 CDT By Michael Gilbert, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Jul. 25--A nurse who treated victims of one of the Army's worst air disasters and at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, took command Thursday at Madigan Army Medical Center. Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho comes to Madigan after 15 months as commander of the Walter Reed Health Care System. She was also promoted earlier this month to command the Army Nurse Corps, a job she'll keep in her new post at Fort Lewis. Horoho was working in an administrative assignment at the Pentagon when hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the building on Sept. 11. She is credited with rushing to the scene and quickly setting up first aid care and triage for the wounded, work that later won her recognition as a "nurse hero" by the American Red... [read full story]