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Foundations There are three foundations supporting Methodist Health System’s hospitals. The foundations raise money to enhance and expand… Fremont Hea…

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The options for treating cancer can be overwhelming. Typically, cancer treatments are delivered in two ways.The first is locally, meaning at the site of the tumor and surrounding tissues, using surgery or radiation therapy. The second is systemically using chemotherapy. Many patients feel some trepi…

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. …

Chemotherapy. Radiation. Immunotherapy.Many lymphoma patients might assume those are their only treatment options. But a new, state-of-the-art therapy that’s proven wildly successful at Methodist, is infusing a renewed outlook into many patients who previously saw little to no success with othe…

“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 …