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Jina Douglas admits she’s never really been an emotional person. The events of the past three weeks, though, have had a way of changing that for the Hastings College women’s basketball coach. First, she became a mother for the first time when Ava Dinae was born on Feb. 24. She was eight weeks prema…

Nine sets of twins. Three sets of triplets. Even for the always bustling NICU at Methodist Women's Hospital, it's a record. Multiples are nothing new at the hospital, which has one of the most successful fertility programs in the region. It's always so busy that some staff didn't realize they had …

In light of the novel coronavirus outbreak, local hospitals are implementing new visitor rules, including on labor and delivery floors. At Methodist Women’s Hospital, patients and visitors are screened upon arrival, and patients are limited to one support person. “I think people recognize the seri…

Holly Barstow, her husband, Bruce, and neighbor Patricia Longacre are spearheading an effort to sew 10,000 face masks for medical personnel at Methodist Health System. And maybe for other hospitals, too. These special masks are larger and made to go over the hard-to-get N95 masks that staff need, a…

  A Snowy Beginning The Blizzard of 1948-49 began in November. It was a series of storms that continued uninterrupted until February 1949. It was January 17 when Susan Tafini’s mother went into labor. Susan Tafini of Springfield, NE was born on January 17, 1949, at Methodist Hospital on the cor…

Local medical centers received a donation of 7,600 masks from Habitat for Humanity of Omaha on Friday. Habitat for Humanity had about 38 boxes of respirators left after the 2019 floods. A conversation between Joe Mirfield, Habitat for Humanity’s safety director, and wife Cindy Mirfield, service lea…

If you're stuck at home because of the coronavirus outbreak, outline what you expect from your partner or roommate , said Nicole Winkler, licensed independent mental health practitioner for Best Care Employee Assistance Program. "We have to have some grace and understanding," Winkler said. "This is…

Tennille and Nicholas Atherton are no strangers to welcoming a new baby into the family. But the sixth time around, the new baby got a different kind of welcome from his big siblings. Because of coronavirus-related visitor restrictions, Kingston Atherton’s big siblings couldn’t meet him at Methodis…

As the novel coronavirus has spread around the globe, its hallmark symptoms have become a kind of medical mantra among health officials — fever, cough, difficulty breathing. But mounting evidence from countries such as South Korea, China and Italy points to another symptom that may be a candidate t…

Barb Klinetobe spent the last 40 years as a dispatcher for the Nebraska State Patrol in Omaha. So when troopers heard the 64-year-old was being transferred in an ambulance from Methodist Hospital to the hospice house Wednesday, they provided an escort. "If you talk to any trooper in Omaha, they wo…