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Above: Tara Slevin, vice president and chief philanthropy officer for Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital and the Jennie Edmundson Foundation; Dr. Norman Ferrer, OB/GYN; John P. Nelson; Anne Elizabeth Nelson; Dr. Tana Perry, OB/GYN; and Steve Baumert, former hospital president and CEO The newly ope…

Four years since the first reported cases of COVID-19, the U.S. is no longer seeing large waves of infections, hospitalizations and deaths related to the virus. Smaller and more predictable clusters of transmission in the summer and winter suggest that the virus is steady like influenza, RSV and oth…

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…

CHICAGO — Becker's Hospital Review has published the 2015 edition of its list of "130 Nonprofit Hospital and Health System CEOs to Know" and John Fraser, Methodist Health System CEO, made the list, which features some of the most impressive presidents and CEOs in the healthcare’s nonprofit sector. …

“He didn’t know where he was or what was going on,” cardiac nurse Andrea Thomas, BSN, RN, said of her patient Richard “Dick” Stemm. “He wanted to leave, and he made every effort to do so.” Although Dick, a 74-year-old retired physician, was admitted to Methodist Hospital in December for atrial fibr…

They’re the words Glenda Brooks, a cleaning technician at Methodist Hospital, always says as she leaves a patient’s room: “Ya’ll have a good day, and I hope you feel better.”But those weren’t her last words to Nancy Eisenbarth, who spent nearly two weeks on the seventh floor of the hospital’s north …

… baby’s stay. The announcement was made earlier today with Methodist Health System leadership, physicians, medical staff and NICU families present. “When we opened this hospital five years …

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital has been honored with a pair of awards for its commitment to quality treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks and strokes.Every year, more than 250,000 people experience an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the deadliest type of heart attack…

Vaccines have long been key to keeping people healthy, but there’s an important one you may not be familiar with. The HPV vaccine can prevent the spread of human papillomavirus, which can cause several types of cancer. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. Getting vaccin…

  Nurses play an incredible role at Methodist. In our hospitals and clinics, Methodist nurses are on the front lines of all kinds of emergencies. They're among the first faces our patients see. This week, in honor of National Nurses Week, we say a big thank you to our nu…