Search Methodist

OMAHA – Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center Breast Care Center has been granted a three-year accreditation designation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program administered by the American College of Surgeons. Methodist was the first in Nebraska to be accredited…

Prostate cancer. Next to skin cancer, it’s the most common cancer among men.According to the American Cancer Society, one in seven men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and it’s the second leading cause of cancer death, ranking only behind lung cancer.For as scary as these statistics might see…

The Methodist Hospital Progressive Care nursing team on 6 North was honored at a recognition ceremony on Wednesday, September 9, as the September DAISY Team Award winner for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Women's Hospital.The team was nominated for the honor by a patient's daughter, a Methodist nu…

(OMAHA)  –   After traveling to Iowa and North Dakota for her medical training, Dr. Christine Carlson Rahn is now calling Nebraska and Methodist Physicians Clinic Hawthorne Court home. Board-certified in family medicine, Dr. Carlson Rahn completed her bachelor of science in biology …

Studies show that one in 10 women will experience a miscarriage. The risk goes up with age and after every loss, but that loss also creates a bond between women and their nurses.Methodist Women's Hospital and Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital dedicated Sunday to those losses, holding a remembrance…

The annual checkup, once a mainstay of primary care, is viewed today by many doctors and medical organizations as unnecessary for healthy adults.Local doctors say there are significant exceptions: Young children should be seen routinely to stay on their immunization schedules, and patients with chro…

The results of a major national study could change the way high blood pressure is defined and treated, physicians here and elsewhere say.Nevertheless, they generally plan to wait for more data from the research, a published report and perhaps a formal change in guidelines before altering the way the…

Dr. Bret Hays knows that at Methodist, everybody has the same goal: to help people.  He working hand-in-hand to deliver the best care possible to his patients at Methodist Physicians Clinic.…

A doctor from South Sudan who visited Omaha for two months appealed for help to expand a clinic he runs in his country.Jackson Lodiong Dumo, who returned Friday to the clinic he runs in Kajo Keji, emphasized the need to raise $500,000 to expand the facility, the only one in a region of roughly 500,0…

 In 2016, Nebraska Methodist College will debut a brand new Master of Science in Nursing Specialization option to meet growing demand throughout the country.The Nursing Informatics track will prepare nursing graduate students to fill the critical role of the informaticist within health systems,…