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...
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...
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...
Dr. Kristine Jennings, director of the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, offers parents of school-age children advice for keeping their kids safe as they return to the classroom. One of the focal points of the conversations of many of my office visits with my patients,...
In her own words: Kate Melody, RN, Memorial Hospital Childbirth Unit charge nurse. Many of us are happiest just living in our own bubbles, not actually watching COVID numbers and data. We are sending our kids back to school, many of them with mask-optional policies. Many don’t...
[caption id="attachment_45892" align="alignleft" width="283"] Joseph Caruso, MD, Beacon Medical Group.[/caption] In his own words: Dr. Joe Caruso, a Beacon Medical Group family physician. The hospitals and ICUs are filling up with COVID patients again. They are not filling up with vaccinated patients; they are filling up with very...
While scrolling through her Facebook feed, Brittany Jaso stopped and looked closely at a black-and-white photo that caught her eye. In it, she saw a nurse and student nurse tending to a small child in a wheelchair. She picked up her phone and messaged the little...
