Daily Nonpareil: Jennie Campaign Honors Hospital Heritage

Nearly 130 years have passed since a tiny hospital situated in a five-room cottage began serving the people of Council Bluffs and the surrounding region.

And while that history remains important today, the care and treatment administered by the medical professionals at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital has advanced light years from what took place in that tiny cottage 13 decades ago.

In that time, the hospital provides far more sophisticated medical care in southwest Iowa through new technology light years ahead of its humble origins.

Jennie Edmundson Foundation has launched a campaign to raise $5 million to replace the aging linear accelerator at its cancer center with an advanced, more precise TrueBeam linear accelerator.