[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...
Kelsey Likens remembers everything happening in slow motion. The Beacon nurse had just left a Mishawaka hair salon Tuesday afternoon with a fresh cut and color. She closed the door behind her at just after 3 o'clock and started down the steps. She was headed to...
Dr. Luke White, Beacon Medical Group critical care and pulmonary specialist, shares his perspective of working on the front line of the pandemic. [caption id="attachment_41870" align="alignright" width="345"] Dr. Luke White of Beacon Medical Group.[/caption] "Keep it up!" "Are you eating OK? Can I get you anything?" "It's great to...
Kristen Johnson, a Memorial oncology nurse educator, who worked in the COVID unit, offers a candid perspective about how she is struggling with "mom guilt" during the pandemic. The first time I felt fear as a mother related to Covid-19 was during our initial hospital briefing....
