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HPV-Related Throat Cancers on the Rise

Jim Whitaker had had a sore throat for a couple of weeks when he went to his doctor in fall 2017. Antibiotics didn’t do much, so his doctor sent him to an ear, nose and throat specialist. After an initial exam, Whitaker recalled, the specialist scooted his chair back. “Almost the first thing out…
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A Doggone Good Valentine's Day at Methodist Hospital

Hospital staff and nurses try just about anything to make patients feel better. And this Valentine's Day, patients on the oncology floor at Methodist Hospital got a little extra love.A little bit of a puppy love, that is.Every Thursday, Lexi and Dude roam the halls at Methodist, visiting patients to…
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Dance to the Beat Celebrates Heart Month in Council Bluffs

The multidisciplinary care team at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital’s Cardiac Center is the heart of an advanced cardiology services network in southwest Iowa, that delivers timely, individualized procedures, treatments and therapies, along with education focused on preventing heart disease. Th…
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Jeffrey Sartin, MD

Dr. Jeffrey Sartin is an infectious disease physician at the Methodist Physicians Clinic. He is especially experienced with travel medicine and treating orthopedic infections and HIV. What he enjoys the most “is making patients better.”…
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Methodist Opens New Clinic in Central Omaha

Methodist Physicians Clinic has opened a new clinic at 80th and Cass Streets in central Omaha and added four experienced internal medicine doctors to staff it. Methodist officials said the clinic system is heavily focused on primary care and has more than 200 primary care providers. “It’s what w…
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Methodist Hospital Earns Blue Distinction Centers+ Designation for Cardiac Care

OMAHA — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska has recognized Nebraska Methodist Hospital with a Blue Distinction Centers+ for Cardiac Care designation as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program. Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated providers that show expertise in deliveri…
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William Lydiatt, MD

Dr. William Lydiatt is a fellowship-trained head and neck surgical oncologist, specializing in the surgical treatment of thyroid and parathyroid disease, salivary gland tumors and cancers of the mouth. He is also very interested in how providers can decrease the rate of depression and improve qualit…
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Diane Millea Recognized With Creighton University Alumni Merit Award

Diane Millea, a 1977 and 2011 graduate of the Creighton University College of Nursing, was recently recognized with the University’s Alumni Merit Award at the university’s inaugural Evening of Honors Alumni Award Ceremony in Omaha. Millea has served as a family nurse practitioner at Methodist Hosp…
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Hospital Perfect Location for K-9 Donation

Ron and Suzanne Mahoney felt the fourth-floor nurses’ station at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital was the ideal place to announce their latest donation to the city — the gift of $3,000 to the Council Bluffs Police Department to purchase street vests with ballistic panels for the department’s two …