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As a senior director with Methodist Physicians Clinic in Fremont, Beth Belmont said she’s always putting herself in other’s shoes to better help them. For example, while helping with COVID-19 testing last summer, Belmont said, she felt the heat was unbearable, something she brought up with the…

Doctors say the first few months, and even weeks, of a baby's life are critical in their development."There’s a lot of learning that happens with the human face. Babies take cues from their parents in situations, and there’s a lot of social interaction that happens. If you think about when you’re ho…

Health care workers across Nebraska are struggling under the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and the hospitalizations and deaths that have followed. The workers say they are tired and worried about having to treat even more patients if Nebraskans don’t take the necessary steps to slow the spread of …

Workers at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital got a little encouragement recently, thanks to an inside elf and hundreds of area schoolchildren. After initially dedicating part of the intensive care unit to COVID-19 patients, the hospital had added a second area in telemetry and was preparing to de…

Makayla Welchert became a registered nurse just over 18 months ago. Though she had worked as a CNA previously, Welchert never could have imagined she would be fighting a pandemic so early in her nursing career. "It's been traumatizing. It has been devastating to see these patients and their famili…

NBC's "Nightly News With Lester Holt" reported Tuesday on the latest with the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as the effect the pandemic continues to have on the nation. Mikayla Baker, RN, a nurse at Methodist Hospital, described the toll: "A lot of grief for us as health care providers when th…

Since 2011, Kelina Moore, has held a very important seat at Methodist Hospital.The passenger seat.Moore, a Certified Driver Rehabilitation Specialist, has been helping hundreds of drivers feel safer behind the wheel through the Methodist Driver Rehabilitation Program.What is Driver Rehabilitation?“S…

For Angela Meiergerd, a registered nurse at Methodist Fremont Health, fighting on the front lines against the COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll. What began as fear of the unknown has translated into difficult days that continue to produce new challenges as the year has progressed. In light of t…

After more than three years in the Fremont community, urgent care center MedExpress closed its doors on Aug. 27. Methodist Fremont Health and Methodist Physicians Clinic are partnering to open an urgent care and occupational medicine center at the old building at 1240 E. 23rd St. next year. “With …

Pat Callaway knows people are scared. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, people are coming to the emergency department at Methodist Fremont Health, and the hospital doesn’t turn them away. But Callaway and other medical professionals are asking people to go to the ED only if they’re having an emerge…