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After beloved therapy dog Dude died earlier this year, Linda Norling knew she wanted to continue volunteering at Methodist Hospital. But without a therapy dog, she was unsure how.“I knew Dude would want me to continue doing therapy work because that was important to both of us,” she said. “I was try…

Earlier this year, Methodist Fremont Health selected Shawn Shanahan to serve as director of the Fremont Health Foundation. In this role, Shanahan leads all fund development activities, donor and a wide range of ongoing programming and special project efforts. Shanahan spent the past nine years le…

The Jennie Edmundson Foundation has begun a campaign to raise $100,000 to replace the hospital’s aging Medi-Bus, a service vehicle that has helped ensure health care access for thousands of people each year. For nearly four decades, Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital has provided transportation …

She came to Methodist Hospital as a travel nurse in 2014. But it didn’t take Kelly Stenwall, BSN, RN, long to decide it was where she wanted to stay.“It was the people,” she said. “Nobody’s a number here. Not the patients. Not the staff.”While she’s now an interventional radiology nurse, Stenwall wo…

Hosting Thanksgiving is never a small feat. But for Kristine Scahill, doing the honors for her family of seven this year was beyond an achievement.Kristine underwent a craniotomy – a major operation to remove a brain tumor – at Methodist Hospital in September. Prior to the surgery, she suffered from…

  Merl Drey in the Children's kitchen in 1979. As a member of the Methodist Hospital Nutrition Services staff, Merl was known for rarely missing work, making countless friends while on the job and greeting anyone and everyone with his signature, “Hi. How you doin’?”The beloved figure known by so man…

A gynecologic cancer diagnosis naturally brings stress, anxiety and questions: Can it be cured? How will this affect my relationship with my spouse? For young women, there can be added worry: Will I be able to have children? It’s often an emotional time, and some women just want the cancer gone …

There are those of us who look to the new year with renewed mind-sets and motivation and those of us who spend Dec. 31 counting regrets instead of seconds to midnight. For some, this time of year can feel like less of a celebration and more of a burden.   If you’re someone who dreads the new year,…

He’s been singing her praises since the day they met six months ago.“She deserves it,” Ray Jolly said of Methodist infusion nurse Abbey Lacy, RN. “She really does. And not just what she did for me, but you ought to see her with the other patients.”Lacy was recently honored with The DAISY Award after…

None of us got where we are today alone. We’ve all been impacted by the guidance of others and the connections we’ve made.  Think back to childhood. Was there a mentor who made a difference in your life? Perhaps you were in a mentoring program, or maybe your mentor took a different form, such as a v…