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While most eyes these days are trained on the battle against the novel coronavirus, regular health care continues almost in the background. Methodist Health System has been asking patients 65 and older who are stable and doing well to stay home. “These patients can easily wait three or four months …

To keep its mothers and babies safe, Methodist Women's Hospital is limiting who it allows in the building. Sydney Brummond could only think about how lonely mothers could be. Brummond says the felt sorry for all the high-risk mothers who are staying at the hospital until their babies are born. She…

Many women have had to upend some of their plans for delivery — and bringing baby home — as the threat of the novel coronavirus became more serious and as hospital protocol continued to evolve. Revised visitor policies and extra protective equipment are some of the bigger changes to local hospitals’…

In the weeks since the worldwide crisis hit home, Nebraskans have sewn face masks by the thousands for health care workers, fired up specialized printers, organized food distribution lines, assembled virtual classrooms, watched over seniors in need and delivered groceries to neighbors. As the coron…

Melissa Groff, PA-C, enjoys pediatric patients and practicing preventive medicine through recommended screening and healthy lifestyles. Groff is impressed by the focus and support Methodist shows in providing quality patient care. She is inspired by the physicians she works with and the patients sh…

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced today a multimillion-dollar effort to save the lives of COVID-19 patients and protect the frontline health care workers caring for them. A total of $4,711,481 in funding will be distributed across five upper-Midwestern states to pay for …

Infertility is something that 1 in 8 couples struggle with. Now, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of those couples are left in limbo while their infertility treatments are postponed because it’s considered an elective procedure. Dr. Abigail Delaney, a Methodist reproductive endocrinologist, unde…

While the wait is a year or more for a COVID-19 vaccine, there are many other vaccines given to children for other diseases we've known about for decades. And this pandemic is keeping some kids from getting the shots. “When everyone returns, we could see a resurgence. And then all of a sudden, we'…

When it’s time for a knee replacement There are many causes of knee pain and if non-surgical treatment options have failed, a knee replacement may be an option for you. This is one of many treatment options that can help alleviate your knee pain.  A knee replacement is a surgical procedure that re…

Dan Marburg, 53, spent eight days in Omaha's Methodist Hospital fighting to stay off a respirator. "The charge nurse came in and said I was the sickest patient on the COVID floor and scared the hell out of all of them. But I was able to fight through it and a week later, I walked out the door," he …