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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has announced that Methodist Health System earned 2022 Digital Health Most Wired recognition as Certified Level 7 for acute and ambulatory areas. The achievement is based on results from CHIME’s annual survey that assesses the adopt…

When you step into Inner Beauty, at every turn you're met with a message of hope and assurance. "They just want to look and feel beautiful in their own skin," said Salon Coordinator, Lori Fuchs. Fuchs said that's why she and three other Clinical Cosmetologists run the specialty salon for breast ca…

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital is proud to be hosting a pair of free events aimed at supporting mothers, babies and families in western Iowa. Visitors are welcome at Jennie Edmundson on Nov. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. for a Women and Newborns open house and car seat checkup. The open house will be he…

The Nebraska Hospital Association recently named F. Thomas Waring, MD, the 2022 Trustee of the Year. The Trustee of the Year award recognizes outstanding leadership and hospital governance, a commitment to excellence in health care and collaboration with community leaders to build support for their …

The Methodist Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is showcasing some of the cutest costumes from some of its youngest patients. According to the hospital, Connected Forever donated more than 40 costumes to these NICU babies, helping Methodist provide families a small piece of normalcy as …

  Two years after contracting a life-threatening infection that took her extremities, a southwest Iowa woman is healthy and functioning well with prostheses. Elaine Goodwin, 72, of rural Logan developed flu-like symptoms on Feb. 20, 2020. What followed was a whirlwind of lifesaving and life-changin…

If a joyful heart is good medicine, you’d think Jean Tiedje and Joan Scheer could be pharmacists. The 93-year-old, identical twins live at Dunklau Gardens in Fremont, where they laugh a lot and dispense their good humor to others. “They’re always joyful,” said Lori Coffield, unit secretary. “They’…

Eric Sandbothe with his wife, Kris, at The DAISY Award ceremony.   Eric Sandbothe, BSN, RN, has seen a lot in 25 years of nursing at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital. But he got the surprise of his career last month while working a shift in the Critical Care Unit. After being coaxed away from …

Dee Wicks, a medical social worker at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital. Photo by Daniel Johnson. Dee Wicks, LBSW, has been a social worker at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital for 35 years. But when she began college, her path wasn’t so clear.Wicks enrolled at Kansas State University with hopes…

A phone call with her sister-in-law in January 2004 resulted in more than a physical and emotional hang-up for Crystal Slaughter, 64. “I was sitting there, I had my arm kind of propped up over the chair, I had scratched under my arm, and that’s when I felt it,” Crystal said. “I told her, ‘I think I…