We asked six doctors to reflect on the personal toll that COVID-19 has taken on them, and to describe the strength they have found caring for patients during the past two years. We asked that they put into words what Doctor's Day means to them...
[caption id="attachment_48129" align="alignright" width="380"] Jared Basker, 25, of South Bend, displays a watercolor painting done by his late great uncle, Edward Basker. Memorial Hospital associates recently found the painting in its archives.[/caption] For Jared Basker, the excitement of finding his great uncle Edward J. Basker’s paintings...
Three stars are a big deal when it comes to this heart procedure. And that’s what Elkhart General Hospital’s transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program has earned – the highest rating possible – from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology. Walter Halloran, MD, Troy Weirick,...
"Match Day" is one of the most exciting times of the year for the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency program. Today, the Residency team learned who will become part of our Beacon family. Programs like ours across the country take on the responsibility of guiding...
By the time she retired after 23 years as a registered nurse and critical care case manager at Elkhart General Hospital, Joyce Hislope had become a vital part of the hospital’s care team. [caption id="attachment_48400" align="alignright" width="358"] Noel and Joyce Hislope[/caption] For the past five years since...
[caption id="attachment_48385" align="alignright" width="413"] Ukrainian immigrant Olga Ustymchuk, an anesthesia technician at Memorial Hospital, left, and Debra Thompson, Memorial's executive director for surgical services, push carts of supplies that Beacon is donating to Slavic Baptist Church in Elkhart. The church plans to fly the supplies...
[caption id="attachment_48319" align="alignright" width="365"] Elizabeth Kuntz, registered nurse in Memorial Hospital's Emergency Department. Kuntz says participating in the hospital's Mini-Medical University for Teens when she was 16 helped prepare her well for a job she loves.[/caption] When Elizabeth Kuntz attended Saint Joseph High School in South...
[caption id="attachment_48189" align="alignright" width="300"] Darice Ruth[/caption] As patient service representative for speech diagnostics at Memorial Hospital, Darice Ruth is part of a team that helps patients find their voice. Many of the patients have received treatment for cancers in the head and neck areas, affecting the larynx,...
Sometimes we can do things for others that seem small to us but are huge to those we do them for. On a recent Friday morning, Brenda Clanton had just learned she had tested positive for COVID-19. The 68-year-old Niles woman was grateful to Dr. Chris...
[caption id="attachment_47926" align="alignright" width="300"] Dr. Janel Charlton, MD, senior associate director, Beacon Medical Group's E. Blair Warner Family Medicine Center.[/caption] As he nears completion of his three-year Memorial Family Medicine Residency program, Dr. Michael Keller has spent a lot of his time caring for South Bend’s...
