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Highlighting hospitals and their meaningful work while also showing signs of appreciation is important to helping sustain hospitals and their workforces. "Compassion fatigue is a process. It's something that builds slowly over time to where a provider or caregiver simply loses their resources or ca…

For Jill Broekemeier, RN, the death of her grandmother was a turning point in her life. She quit her job as a college softball coach, sold her house in Connecticut and moved back to Nebraska. Then she enrolled in nursing school – a second career to honor those who helped her grandmother during her i…

Two southwest Iowa brothers and their wives were blessed with baby boys on the same day last month. Dean Dallas Jensen, son of Michael and Emilee Jensen of Council Bluffs, was born at 4:21 p.m. on Nov. 29 at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital. He joined his brother, Mac, who is 19 months old. At …

Saturday, Jan. 30, fans attending the Creighton vs. Seaton Hall basketball game in Omaha weren't all dressed in blue. No, on this night, the more than 17,000 in attendance wore pink for the annual Pink Out/Coaches vs. Cancer event.The annual game is sponsored by Methodist and CHI Health and is the b…

Easier Said Than DoneLook, we all know by now that smoking is bad for our health and the health of those around us. Smoking is the No. 1 cause of preventable death and disease in the U.S. But stomping out a cigarette habit for good isn’t as easy as some may think. It’s been said that nicotine is the…

Bobbi Gill calls Mary-Ellen Bartels, MPT, CLT-LANA, her “guardian angel,” and for good reason.Bobbi has been a physical therapy patient at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital for four years as she’s battled balance issues, a torn rotator cuff, back problems, lymphedema and other health challenges.Ba…

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital is joining the Iowa Donor Network to Inspire Iowa to Donate Life during National Donate Life Month in April. Jennie Edmundson will be flying the Donate Life flag during the month to remind others of the importance of organ donation. Every April since 2002, indivi…

Kari McMartin with her husband, Travis, and daughters Evelynn and EliseCuddling her newborn baby with her toddler sleeping on the floor at her feet, Kari McMartin packs a lot of love into her cozy home in rural Hancock, Iowa.About an hour east of the Council Bluffs city limits, Kari keeps her window…

Honor and EncourageWith blue ink in their pens and pink in their hearts, thousands stopped by the Methodist booth at the 2017 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to sign remembrances on two giant banners. The notes they wrote were to honor and encourage survivors of breast cancer.“We’re encouraging peo…

Educating Through ExperienceMethodist Fremont Health and Midland University dedicated a new simulation laboratory in 2018. Funded solely through philanthropic support, the simulation lab features five state-of-the-art mannequins that breathe, talk, bleed and even give birth like real human beings.Th…