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Methodist Health System (MHS) recently received the Nebraska’s Safest Companies with Distinction Award from the Nebraska Chapter of the National Safety Council. This marks the 12th year MHS earned the recognition.Organizations receiving awards with distinction have safety records that are 50% better…

Deborah Marks Conley, MSN, APRN-CNS, GCNS-BC, FNGNA, CDP, traces her passion for gerontological nursing to time spent with her maternal grandmother.“Growing up, I was very, very close to her,” said Conley, gerontological clinical nurse specialist and service executive for geriatrics at Methodist Hos…

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, but preventive screenings can help detect it early, when it’s most treatable and before it has a chance to spread.At Methodist, we understand that early detection is key to survival, and we’re proud to offer free skin cancer screenings at M…

During orientation at Nebraska Methodist College (NMC), students are asked to share why they’re pursuing health care careers.For Savannah Peters, who graduated in December with a Bachelor of Science in nursing, NMC is where she discovered that her “why” matters.Peters initially pursued nursing simpl…

Victoria is having a baby – and she’s beyond mincing words.“This is the worst pain ever,” she declared.“It’s not going to be long,” reassured Mary Seger Barker, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CIMI, a clinical nurse educator at Methodist Women’s Hospital. “I can see the top of the baby’s head.”Remarkable and re…

Eating dinner with my family in the mall food court on a Monday night, I knew I had hit rock bottom.It had been one of those loooong painful summer days when the kids were cranky and “bored” despite my best efforts to shuttle them around all weekend to activities.I hadn’t had time to get to the groc…

The $90 million project to add more and bigger operating rooms at Methodist Hospital is more than halfway to completion, hospital executives said Tuesday.Operating room sizes are expected to increase from 420 square feet to 650; 32 prep/recovery rooms will expand to 44 private rooms; and cardiac ser…

When you are expecting, you hear a lot of advice about what’s best for baby. Now there may be a way you to give baby an extra boost hadn’t thought much about – keeping baby attached to the umbilical cord just a little bit longer.When discussing a birth plan with my patients at Methodist Physicians C…

Omaha - Nebraska Methodist College held its summer commencement July 31, awarding degrees to graduates of the school’s numerous health care-related programs. Commencement took place at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church.  Degrees were bestowed in a combined ceremony for nursing and allied health s…

(OMAHA)  –   An NCAA Division II softball athlete at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill., has joined the family medicine team at Methodist Physicians Clinic Hawthorne Court. Dr. Ashley LeGrand-Rozovics, doctor of osteopathy, is a board-certified family medicine provider. At Lewis U…