Dear Beacon Team, We’ve all been in this together for the past seven months, since our first confirmed case of COVID-19 back in March. We’ve worked together to mitigate the spread of the virus in our hospitals, clinics and offices. And together, our efforts have resulted in...
[caption id="attachment_42429" align="alignleft" width="225"] Cassandra Peyton, left, poses with her mom, Bennie Payton.[/caption] The staff at Elkhart General Hospital lined the hallway, cheering and applauding for a retired elementary school teacher. Bennie Payton, too, threw her arms up in the air after learning she was the 1,000th...
This original post was written the summer of 2020 and Beacon was experiencing the angst of COVID that had gone on for 6 months. Now we are experiencing that same angst but it has gone on for 18 months. And staff is tired, society is...
[caption id="attachment_42293" align="alignleft" width="398"] Becky MacDonald, left, and Kristin Roush, right, pose together inside Memorial Hospital of South Bend.[/caption] Two expectant moms this summer didn't quite make it into Memorial Hospital before their babies were ready to be born. Luckily, long-time nurses Becky MacDonald and Kristin Roush...
Maggie Alvarez is an Environmental Services associate at Memorial Hospital. [caption id="attachment_42229" align="alignleft" width="300"] Maggie Alvarez working at Memorial Hospital.[/caption] When COVID started, it was scary. We were seeing a lot of elderly people dying of it. We wore masks and shields and glasses and were still...
In August 2020, the Health Resources & Services Administration under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded Beacon Health System a 3-year, $1 million grant to assemble and support a collaborative coalition within Marshall County to address opioid and substance abuse, which resulted...
Tori Stack is an Environmental Services associate at Elkhart General Hospital. "In the early days of the pandemic there was an overwhelming amount of new information and policy changes for the entire hospital. As an Environmental Services associate, we break the chain of infection keeping patients,...
[caption id="attachment_42162" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sharon VanDeWielle and her granddaughters.[/caption] Sharon VanDeWielle, BSN, RNC-NIC, celebrated 40 years in July at Memorial Hospital of South Bend. She has spent more than 20 of those years working as a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. "I feel blessed to...
[caption id="attachment_42116" align="alignleft" width="226"] Deysi, a pediatric patient at Beacon Children's Hospital, poses with her plush bird "Pinky," that she received during the "Adopt a Pet" event.[/caption] Pediatric patients oftentimes miss their friends and family members who aren't able to visit them at Beacon Children's Hospital...
Story by Langston Johnson, Intern, Beacon Corporate Communications The intercom rang inside the Memorial Hospital Critical Care Unit and Taylor Freedline watched everyone around her pause. The Bethel University graduate, who was working on clinicals to finish nursing school in March, listened to the announcement they...
