How Memorial MedFlight saves lives

You’ve seen medical helicopters fly overhead and likely wondered what and where the emergency is. For Memorial MedFlight, the emergency can be anything, anywhere in our region. But the goal is the same: get patients to the best care available, as safely quickly as possible. When time is not on a...

Do vegetarians get enough protein?

Vegetarian diets are becoming more popular than ever. But many people have questions about plant-based diets. Kate Glick, registered dietitian at Beacon, provides insights on the popular meatless movement. What is the vegetarian diet? Vegetarianism is an eating practice that eliminates the consumption of meat and/or animal byproducts such as cheese, milk...

Elkhart General nursing assistant learns invaluable lessons working beside hospital caregivers

Rayven Jarvis, a Certified Nursing Assistant at Elkhart General Hospital, talks about how her colleagues have helped one another through challenging times, and how she is more determined than ever to be a nurse. Rayven is a Beacon Health Foundation 2021 nursing scholarship recipient. Working through COVID has not been a...

Three Rivers Health joins Beacon Health System

Beacon Health System and Three Rivers Health officials today announced that they have finalized an agreement for the 60-bed acute care facility to become the eighth hospital in the non-profit Beacon Health System and the first in the state of Michigan. For more than a century, Three Rivers Health has been...

Mom shares emotional account of watching her hospitalized toddler struggle with RSV

Michelle Walden talks candidly about her 3-year-old son, Elias (El-ias), and his hospitalization with RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus). Elias had spent 287 days in the Beacon Children's Hospital NICU in 2018. Last Friday started like any other day. My son, Elias, went to school and had a normal day. He and...

Memorial ICU assistant follows her heart and the “call to serve” amid nursing shortage during pandemic

Karri Weber is a unit assistant at the Memorial Hospital ICU and a 2021 Beacon Health Foundation nursing scholarship recipient. She believes "there is no greater honor to be someone's nurse."  Find out why, below. Every day I see how hard nurses work and it is an honor to work next...

COVID survivors, like cancer survivors, are “forever changed, physically, mentally and emotionally”

Dr. Joseph Caruso, a family physician at Beacon Medical Group Schwartz-Weikamp in Mishawaka, offers his perspective on working with COVID patients during the pandemic. I knew the office visit would be difficult, but I was not prepared to hear my patient say, "I got my husband into hospice this morning." He is...

Elkhart General unit assistant wants to be a nurse “more than I ever have” after working during pandemic

Stacey Griffin is a Unit Assistant in the Elkhart General Intensive Care Center. Below, Stacey describes why she is pursuing a career in nursing. She is a 2021 Beacon Health Foundation Nursing Scholarship winner.  "I started my journey in healthcare at just 16 years old. Through the years, I have run...

Dr. Muhammad Saeed elected as Fellow of American College of Physicians

ELKHART, Ind. – Dr. Muhammad Saeed, MD, FACP, an internist and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Physician, practicing at Beacon Medical Group Pulmonology and General Surgery in Elkhart, has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the society of internists. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal...