[caption id="attachment_46223" align="alignleft" width="225"] Laura Meyer reads to her granddaughter, Hazel.[/caption] Laura Meyer loves so many things about being a Newborn Intensive Care Unit nurse and taking care of the hospital's tiniest patients. 'Bath night' and reading are two of her absolute favorites. "When I walk down...
In his own words: Rodrigo Correa is the Director of Rehabilitation Inpatient Services, Inpatient Therapy Services, Sterile Processing and Speech Diagnostics at Memorial Hospital. He describes his experiences on September 11, 2001, and how it has affected his life and his career. My heart, thoughts, and...
Julie Parrott Karrer has no problem recalling how she felt on her milestone birthdays. The Elkhart native remembers the feeling a sense of despair when she was still single and turning 30. A wife and mother of five children, she cried when she turned 40. She decided she...
Beacon’s mission to ‘Deliver outstanding care, inspire health and connect with heart’ depends on every person in our organization being committed to the service to others. To ensure the fulfillment of our mission, Beacon is making changes over the coming weeks to some of our wage...
The CDC and the Indiana Department of Health now recommend that people whose immune systems are compromised moderately to severely should receive an additional, third dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine after the initial two doses. Beacon Medical Group patients who meet the criteria should contact...
CHA Accountable Care Organization (ACO), LLC, operated by Beacon Health System, improved care for nearly 12,300 Medicare beneficiaries in Indiana and southwest Michigan in 2020, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, accountable care organizations that...
[caption id="attachment_46134" align="alignright" width="351"] Every attendee of the Beacon Community Impact Layperson Naloxone class receives a dose of NARCAN through the end of 2021.[/caption] Drug overdoses jumped by more than 30 percent nationwide last year, largely fueled by opioids. Opioids alone accounted for more than 69,000...
In his own words: Ian Klein is a Registered Nurse who holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and works at Memorial Hospital in South Bend. “I want to describe what goes on in a medical worker’s life right now. These are all my own...
[caption id="attachment_46042" align="alignleft" width="225"] Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz, Beacon Children's Hospital.[/caption] In her own words: Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz, Medical Director at Beacon Children's Hospital, explains how children with every illness and injury could be impacted by rising pediatric COVID cases. And what we can do to stop...
Dr. Luke White, a Beacon Medical Group critical care and pulmonary specialist who works in the Memorial and Elkhart General critical care and intensive care units, describes the emotional challenges physicians face during the pandemic. Part of my work as an intensivist is performing the brain...
