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Area hospitals are asking the community to help keep doctors, nurses and other hospital staff safe from the spread of COVID-19. "I think being a front line health care worker is often times a calling,"Methodist Hospital Foundation President and CEO Tracy Madden-McMahon said. "These are really speci…

Members of the Nebraska Chinese Association are no strangers to giving back. Last year, they raised money to help flood victims. This year, they have raised money and donated thousands of masks to local hospitals coping with a mask shortage during the coronavirus pandemic. Members donated 10,000 …

Just three pieces of materials: elastic, a spool of thread and a grocery bag. It's a simple, yet brilliant idea that will help protect those working so diligently to help others."This is the N95 mask, and this is the mask that all the volunteers made," said Judy Fletcher of Celtic Quilter. "It will …

Dr. Emily Patel of Methodist Women's Hospital takes care of high-risk pregnant mothers and is researching COVID-19 every day. "The biggest unknown is what this impact will be on our early pregnancy patients because we haven't seen it long enough to look at the data yet. We don't know how its affect…

The Omaha metropolitan area’s three large health systems are all taking steps to conserve supplies, including prioritizing testing to people at greatest risk, decontaminating health care workers’ N95 masks with UV light to extend their life, and partnering with local makers to obtain plastic face sh…

At the request of Pottawattamie County Emergency Management, members of the Iowa National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry set up medical tents in the parking lots at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital and CHI Health Mercy Hospital on Monday. Meanwhile, Methodist Fremont Health plans to erect…

Whether you’re a parent or not, we’ve all heard about the classes that teach you to breathe, relax and prepare for parenthood. But the COVID-19 pandemic has forced some changes on this group. “We've gotten 100 families through the Zoom classes, and that’s a big concern of theirs. 'What is this goin…

Coronavirus for now has shut down many of the traditions and events of spring, large and small, local and national. One activity, however, has avoided shutdown through this period: golf. Evidently nothing can prevent golfers from playing their appointed rounds. Most courses have adopted new protoc…

The Easter Bunny was busy getting ready for this weekend, so he asked for his buddy Santa's help. Santa visited seniors at Florence Home for Christmas in April. He spent some time in the courtyard waving to the 90 residents inside their rooms. It's a tradition for staff at Methodist Hospital's Acu…

Storm Chasers owner Gary Green was ruminating on various ways to give back to the Omaha community as it adjusts to the coronavirus pandemic. Then his New York-based company secured an order for protective masks. That’s it, he thought. Green announced Tuesday that he’s donating 45,000 disposable ma…