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Fun-loving Rod Courtier enjoys lifting other people’s spirits. Few would guess that at 65, Rod has battled emphysema and lung cancer. Raised in Hastings, he met his future wife, Sue, in fourth grade. He began his 21-year Army career at 17 thanks to a convincing lie about his age. After his second …

Janae Dudgeon, MD, a board-certified family medicine physician at Methodist Physicians Clinic, loves building relationships with every member of a family. “You get to know the infants, the parents and the grandparents,” she said. “It’s amazing getting to take care of an entire family, seeing them t…

School starts for my two boys in just a matter of days. We have been busy getting ready by purchasing school supplies and new tennis shoes, and getting in our last trips to the pool. But the beginning of the school year also means getting back on school schedules – crazy evenings filled with activ…

Thousands of volunteers rolled up their sleeve to brush up the city of Omaha. Residents primed and painted their way into the hearts of homeowners across the metro who needed that extra hand to tackle projects. Homes across the area got a makeover thanks to a team of more than 2,000 people fo…

The Spirit of Courage Celebrity Weekend went well and appears to have met its goal, a Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital official said Monday. The benefit, combined with The Bald & the Brave activities held earlier in the summer, raised about $125,000 for the hospital’s Spirit of Courage Char…

OMAHA - In an effort to prepare healthcare workers to cope with the changing face of patient care, Nebraska Methodist College will launch a Master in Occupational Therapy (MOT) program in 2016 with recruitment for the exclusive program beginning immediately.This move by Nebraska Methodist College co…

Robyn Shirley, BSN, RN, a nurse on the Methodist Hospital Cardiac Unit, was honored at a recognition ceremony on Thursday, August 20, as the August DAISY Award winner for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Women's Hospital. She was nominated for the honor by the patient's daughter, who wrote that al…

Dr. Todd Sauer is the medical director of palliative care and hospice at Methodist Hospital. He believes communication and education are key to helping patients and families make important decisions about their own medical care.…

OMAHA - Delivering quality care in the most cost effective manner is the concept behind a new value-based patient-focused, total cost of care reimbursement agreement between Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska and the Nebraska Health Network.  The Nebraska Health Network is a local, physic…

In September 2014, Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital launched a new Safe Baby Campaign, making an easy-to-understand DVD/booklet package available free of charge to hospitals, day care providers, new parents and high school classes on parenting and child development.From September 2014 to Septembe…