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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…

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 othe…

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…

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…

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 emergency. …

FedEx is expected to begin delivering more than 15 thousand doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Nebraska as early as Monday, Dec. 14. But there are still a lot of unknowns. “The information changes every day. So this is not something easily planned for down to the finite details. So we have teams in pl…

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital’s new $10.75 million birthing center offers more space, comfort and technology. The new center opened Dec. 15 on the hospital’s fifth floor, replacing the birthing area on the second floor. It is part of Jennie Edmundson’s upgrade of its women’s services. The la…