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Congrats to our newest DAISY Honoree – Laurice Alford!

The Year of the Nurse Perfect Timing It couldn’t be any more perfect timing to recognize Methodist Medical Center’s first 2020 DAISY recipient than during National Nurses Week – and the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale. In fact, in her honor, the World Health Organization has named 2020 the “Year of the Nurse.” DAISY Details […]

A 3-D Good Deed

When 10-year-old Grayson Brown received a 3-D printer for Christmas last year little did he know how much he would be using it just a few months later – and what a need he would fill with his efforts.  “I had mostly been using it to make stuff for friends and to make things for […]

MEDIC Needs Us Now More than Ever!

Please support these upcoming local MEDIC Mobile Blood Drives. Fri., April 3 Walgreens – Clinton 1:30 – 6 p.m. Mon., April 6 Kroger Marketplace – Oak Ridge 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tues., April 21 McDonald’s – Clinton Noon – 6 p.m. Fri., May 1 Oak Ridge Police Department 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.   […]

NEW VISITOR RESTRICTIONS

📢 Important update regarding hospital visitor restrictions!

Welcome Karen Whalen, FNP-BC

Certified family nurse practitioner Karen Whalen, FNP-BC has joined the primary care team at Clinton Family Physicians. Learn more about Karen.

MMC Celebrates First BEE Award Honoree

You Can’t Have a DAISY Without a BEE Congratulations to Eric Shepard from Medical Imaging for his selection as Methodist’s first BEE Award recipient. The BEE Award stands for Being Exceptional Every day and is aimed at celebrating our ancillary caregivers and is a compliment to the DAISY award for RN’s and LPN’s. You can’t […]

DAISY Award Honors Extraordinary Nursing Care

Last month, we were able to honor not just one but TWO MMCers for the DAISY award which recognizes nurses who provide extraordinary care.  For those who might not be familiar, the DAISY Award is an international nurse recognition program that celebrates the compassion and skills nurses bring to patients and families every day. We […]

A Patient Story – Sharon Norman

Malfunction Junction Neck was a wreck until surgeon put her on track Sharon Norman could get no rest at the junction. In short, the 62-year-old Rockford woman’s neck was a train wreck. It had jumped the track at the C6-7 vertebrae, pulling the C7-T1 vertebrae along to form a kind of “malfunction junction.” In that […]