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OMAHA — Steve Goeser, president and CEO of Methodist Health System, has announced Josie Abboud as the new president and CEO of Methodist Hospital and Methodist Women’s Hospital. She will assume her new role on Oct. 1.“Josie’s dedication to the culture and mission of Methodist was evident very early …

Looking to enhance health care options for Council Bluffs and western Iowa families, Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital broke ground on a 60,000-square-foot medical office building on Thursday, Sept. 20. Hospital, Methodist Health System and Methodist Physicians Clinic representatives, along with C…

Officials of Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital, the hospital’s board of directors, Methodist Health System and Methodist Physicians Clinic broke ground for Jennie Edmundson’s $18 million medical office building project Thursday morning. Methodist Jennie Edmundson President and CEO Steve Baumert …

A day after feeling a pain in his leg and tingling in his feet and fingertips, Justin Chenier found himself struggling to walk. Chenier suspected it was just a pulled muscle. But six weeks later, he’s still in the hospital. In his basement when he started struggling, Chenier crawled upstairs and…

Methodist has the longest running program geared towards domestic violence and sexual assault in the state of Nebraska.Sexual assault survivors are one of the only populations that come into the emergency department not to be taken care of by someone specially trained to see them. That's in the past…

Placing importance on addressing all aspects of health, Dr. Rachel Swim, OB/GYN, strives to tailor care to each person and making each course of action unique to them. Each patient and moment is special to her. Dr. Swim attended medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She later…

OMAHA – Dr. Jeffrey Sartin has always been fascinated by science and medicine. The drive to figure things out drew him to treating infectious diseases. “But what I really like is making patients better,” said Dr. Sartin, who has joined the Infectious Disease/Travel Medicine staff at Methodist Phys…

The odds of their first words being “Alpha Xi Delta” are slim. But this trio just might go Greek later. After all, the new babies were born to three Alpha Xi Delta sorority sisters. The women, all 35, wound up delivering their babies on the same day last week at Methodist Women’s Hospital. Oma…

Carbon monoxide is known to a lot of people as the silent killer. There are no warning signs," said Dr. Brian Gartrell, a family medicine doctor at Methodist Physicians Clinic in Council Bluffs. It's impossible to see it or smell it. You're banking on an alarm to tell you when something is wrong. …

Richard O’Neill is happy his doctor recommended he get his lungs screened for cancer. O’Neill, 73, of Council Bluffs, said he’s thankful he caught his lung cancer early. The Council Bluffs man was a smoker for more than 50 years, and earlier this year decided to get tested for lung cancer. We ca…