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Fremont Public Schools (FPS) has partnered with Methodist Fremont Health to provide some much-needed supplies as the hospital prepares for the COVID-19 crisis.The school district is loaning more than 100 pairs of goggles, 20 boxes of latex-free gloves and safety glasses. FPS is also loaning UV sanit…

Working together, CHI Health and Methodist Health System will implement a no visitor policy at all of their hospital and clinic locations beginning Wednesday, April 1. This moves comes in response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the region.  CHI Health moved to one visitor limitation…

While state and local governments work to lessen the spread of the deadly coronavirus, independent and assisted living centers seek to protect elderly residents, who are among the most vulnerable to it.The communities are closed to visitors so staffers have been getting creative to maintain good mor…

Methodist Fremont Health is continuing to take steps to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic with a little help from members of the Fremont community. Several local businesses and organizations, including Fremont Public Schools, Harbor Freight and Christensen Lumber, have contributed supplies to the h…

On a typical day, pre-pandemic, physician assistant Emily Struebing might be checking on a sprained ankle, shining a light into a sore throat or prescribing a young woman birth control. These days, she is washing her chapped hands with surgical precision. She is putting on a surgical gown, gloves, …

It’s not yet clear whether health officials in the U.S. will recommend that healthy people wear face masks out in public during the coronavirus outbreak. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering changing its guidelines to encourage people to do so. Dr. Robert Redfield,…

Area hospitals are asking the community to help keep doctors, nurses and other hospital staff safe from the spread of COVID-19. "I think being a front line health care worker is often times a calling,"Methodist Hospital Foundation President and CEO Tracy Madden-McMahon said. "These are really speci…

The coronavirus outbreak has reminded Dr. Heidi Hausmann why she went into medicine. “This is what we signed up for when we wanted to be physicians,” said Hausmann, the lead hospitalist at Omaha’s Methodist Hospital. “We all went into medicine to help people and our communities.” But the pandemic …

OMAHA  -  Methodist Physicians Clinic is proud to announce the opening of a centrally located Omaha clinic and the addition of new internal medicine doctors. Methodist Physicians Clinic Cass Street at 8019 Cass St. is home to Dr. Karen Joyce, Dr. M. Alexander Shehan and Dr. Julia Mullen. …

Jim Whitaker had had a sore throat for a couple of weeks when he went to his doctor in fall 2017. Antibiotics didn’t do much, so his doctor sent him to an ear, nose and throat specialist. After an initial exam, Whitaker recalled, the specialist scooted his chair back. “Almost the first thing out…