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OMAHA ― Josie Abboud, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Methodist Hospital, received the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award at the Nebraska Hospital Association’s annual meeting. The Senior-Leve…

LA VISTA, NEB. — The Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) recognized 66 Nebraska member hospital employees on October 27, for their excellence in service by bestowing them with the organization’s prestigious “The Caring Kind” award. Methodist Health System’s Susan Jasman and Cindy Leaver were among…

Jen Tran, RN, SANE, Methodist SANE/SART Program coordinator, says she is inspired every day by the passion and tirelessness of her fellow Methodist SANE nurses. She is also inspired by the community and the way everyone pulls together to try to put an end to sexual assault a…

A group of cancer survivors found a way to celebrate their success in the spirit of Thanksgiving. The Harper's Hope group at Methodist Estabrook Center collected over 30 blankets and two blow-up beds for the Open Door Mission.For these survivors it's a celebration of life and charity."We are ve…

Registered nurse Haiden Brand, 24, was driving home about 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 when a crash happened in front of her on westbound I-80 near 72nd Street. She got out of her car and tended to a 60-year-old man whose car was wedged between a semitrailer and a concrete median. He forced his way out of…

"All we talked about was our children," Sue Roberts said.For Roberts, it was a visit she will never forget. It was a chance to meet with former Vice President Joe Biden."We thought we were going to meet him for like five minutes," Roberts said. "Instead he took us into a room and we met with him for…

Patients still are having surgery and getting the medications they need, but several area hospitals say they are having to make some adjustments in how drugs are administered in the face of a national shortage of certain types of intravenous fluids. The American Hospital Association noted in a bul…

It’s a homecoming of sorts for Dr. Andrew Coughlin, a specialist in dealing with cancer of the head and neck. The Council Bluffs native recently opened a clinic at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital. "We want everybody in Council Bluffs and southwest Iowa to have access to good head and neck ca…

Forty years ago John Fraser’s graduate school professors warned that the health care industry was about to change. Today, after all that time, Fraser said, a health care overhaul is perhaps 15 percent underway, but has the momentum to turn the industry 180 degrees — switching from incentives that …

John Anderson hasn’t missed a workout in over a year. He’s battled sniffles and colds, but that never stopped the Omaha man from working with weights or racking up miles on the treadmill. And persistence has paid off for Anderson, now 57. Since he started his exercise efforts a little over …