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Mayor Jean Stothert and Douglas County Health Director Adi Pour held a news conference on COVID-19 Friday afternoon. Representatives of Omaha hospitals and Omaha police were also present. Bill Lydiatt, MD, vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for Methodist Hospital and Metho…

As pandemic concerns and warnings rise in the health care community, so too do questions about celebrating the November and December holidays with family and friends. Dr. Jared Pehrson, a Methodist Physician Clinic family medicine physician, and Pam Menard, a counselor with the Methodist Hospital C…

Methodist Health System was among the Nebraska medical associations and hospitals to sign an essay describing the strains on medical personnel from COVID-19 and the need for the public to help. The piece appeared in the Omaha World-Herald on Nov. 15, 2020. "We are now at the point in the pandemic w…

Although Jamie Gustafson, MD, said her education in medical school prepared her going forward, she said her residency training in helping deliver babies was a whole different experience. “As far as the long hours, and in obstetrics, things are either really happy or they’re horrible, and having to …

Nearly 600 golf balls were dropped from a helicopter to raise funds for the Fremont Health Foundation’s COVID-19 efforts Friday afternoon. The Fremont Health Foundation’s first annual Golf Ball Drop was livestreamed on Facebook Live from the green space outside Methodist Fremont Health. As part of…

Not getting enough sleep can bring along a variety of problems - from your mental health to your physical health. Learn why it's so important to get good sleep!…

Tim Hoarty, service leader for Critical Care at Methodist Hospital, joined experts from Nebraska Medicine and CHI Health for a Facebook forum hosted by television station KMTV. The forum covered topics including the current COVID-19 situation, how hospital staffs are being affected and what the comm…

Erin McGill was a healthy, 31-year-old woman who had plenty to celebrate this fall. Not long after she and her fiance celebrated their engagement, things took a scary turn. McGill got COVID-19. After battling symptoms including chills, fevers and a serious cough, she was ad…

As COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record highS in the metro this week, there was promising news on the vaccine front. At Meridian Clinical Research in northwest Omaha, there are more than 1,700 Nebraskans who have volunteered to participate in the Moderna and Pfizer clinical trials for a COVID-…

The message from area hospitals is simple, and one you’ve heard for months: Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and avoid large gatherings. With COVID-19 hospitalizations at high levels locally and statewide, leaders and staff at CHI Health Mercy and Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in…