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A pilot for 10 years, Adam Liston was at work, away from his small Nebraska community, when record flooding forced his wife and two kids to evacuate. When he got back, he knew what he had to do. "When I was able to return to Nebraska and saw the devastation, I just knew I had to help in the best…

The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons has granted renewed three-year accreditation to the cancer program at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital. The Cancer Center at Jennie Edmundson is the only site in western Iowa that has been accredited continuously since 1995. "This acc…

When Matthew Eledge and husband Elliot Dougherty started talking about starting a family, Matthew's mom chimed in with an offer. I just said, ‘Oh, wow, if you ever need a carrier ... I enjoyed being pregnant. I’d do it in a heartbeat,” Cecile “Cele” Eledge recalled. Later, Matthew mentioned the …

Patrick Smith, a content strategist for Methodist Health System, has over a decade of experience writing and editing for newspapers and other publications. He enjoys meeting new people and telling stories that highlight Methodist's mission to deliver The Meaning of Care.…

The Greater Omaha Chamber will induct eight people into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame during an April 17 gala at the Holland Performing Arts Center. The chamber has been honoring leaders of industry since 1993. This year’s honorees bring the total number of Business Hall of Fame inductees to 166.…

The U.S. has a surprising problem: More women have been dying in childbirth in recent years. Currently, the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among the world’s top 50 developed nations, according to an alliance of health care organizations. It’s also the only country except Afghanistan a…

Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center is helping people check to see if they have head or neck cancers.Liz Pettinger was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2016."Really no one is safe from it, so it's good to be cautious," said Pettinger.Pettinger was a busy mom of two when she noticed something o…

Anne Race has been managing her lymphedema for decades. The breast cancer survivor developed it after her treatment for cancer."There's no cure, no cure, so it's something you have to live with, and I've lived with it for 23 years," Race said.Lymphedema can develop for various reasons including afte…

A new mother in her mid-thirties, Lena Munger was doing fine. She had some digestive problems but she figured it was not serious. At her doctor’s suggestion, she had a colonoscopy. “I was floored,” she said. “I was absolutely shocked. I had no thought. No one in my family has ever had colon cancer…

In a dimly lit procedure room at Methodist Hospital, three physicians trained their eyes on large screens displaying images of Albert Grubb’s beating heart.Two took turns threading a wire through the organ toward a small, fingerlike projection off the left atrium, one of the heart’s two upper chambe…