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In 2018, Lydia Williams began having balance issues. She was a healthy teenager and a high school competitive swimmer. Her ability to maintain balance escalated and by September 2021, she was unable to walk, says her mother, Sarah. Soon Lydia had to use a wheelchair.
The family lives in Chicago and...
For eight years, Michelle Rannells dealt with pain. As a pediatric nurse who was on her feet a lot, she thought she had a pinched sciatica nerve, because the pain would come and go. After a shift at work, Michelle would head home and go to bed – sometimes for...
UPDATE: April 10, 2023
The main entrance to Elkhart General Hospital is now reopened.
Patients and visitors may resume using the main entrance drive for drop off and pick up as well as enter from the visitors’ parking garage.
The Decio Pavilion entrance “D” remains open for patients and visitors who need to...
March 10, 2023 – A recent data security event involving Beacon Health System (“Beacon”) may affect the security of information related to certain individuals who are affiliated with Beacon as current or former patients. Although there is no indication of identity theft or fraud resulting from this event, we are...
Robert Widup had always taken blood thinners to manage his heart condition. Widup suffers from atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm that can lead to blood clots in the heart and increase the risk of stroke.
While blood thinners helped manage the condition, they posed a risk: uncontrolled bleeding. This...
Tracey Daggy, CFRN, TCRN, started her nursing career with no intention of being a Memorial MedFlight nurse. Like most callings in life, the career found her.
During her first week as an emergency room nurse at a local hospital, several children arrived via ambulance from a house fire. A helicopter flew...
When a group of Beacon Children’s Hospital associates nominated Dee Ullmer, RN-NIC, for the 4moms NICU Nurse of the Year award, they didn’t have to go far to gather kudos for the nomination form: her patients’ parents.
“She loved my son like her own child, holding him and comforting him when...
For Beacon associates Kimberly Green Reeves and Lynn Coleman, giving back to the community isn’t just something they do professionally. It is a way of life.
Green Reeves grew up in a home with parents who instilled in her at a very young age that giving is its own reward. Over...
Beacon Medical Group pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Daniel Fulkerson might need to add a second bookshelf in his offices.
Dr. Fulkerson and his staff were recently amazed and appreciative when Deborah Allen and her five children, ranging in age from 3 to 11, delivered 1,472 children’s books to his practice on the...
Few people know that Zach Roberts was raised by his grandmother.
But she is the reason Zach remembers a relative he never met, but feels like he knew, every Memorial Day. He thinks of Dillard.
“Grandma was the seventh daughter of 13 brothers and sisters. Dillard was her favorite brother,” Zach says....