Articles & Education
Employee Spotlight – Kat
Nurses are special people who care for community members during the best and worst times of their lives. Over the past year, Metro Health nurses, like Kat, proved that not even a pandemic could hold...
Employee Spotlight – Joyce
As a team coordinator in the Metro Health Hospital patient registration office, Joyce is one of the first people patients interact with when they arrive. Each day, she helps patients check-in for...
In race to create a COVID-19 vaccine, there is no fast track for approval
Dr. Rakesh Pai imagines a point in the not too distant, post-COVID future when people are lining up to see a movie. “We’re all going to go to the movie theater and we’re going to watch ‘Warp...
COVID vaccine trials need diverse test subjects, so a doctor rolled up his sleeve
Dr. Rakesh Pai understands the lifesaving power of vaccines as a physician, but also from a family perspective. When the opportunity came to volunteer to test one of the new COVID-19 vaccines, he did...
Employee Spotlight – Becky
We are grateful for passionate and dedicated team members, like Becky, who make Metro Health better by providing our community with the best possible care.
Deb Wieringa, Melanoma Survivor
There was a pit in her stomach and a lump in her throat as Deb Wieringa prepared to tell her family the news, and it wasn’t good. She watched as the faces of her loved ones filled with fear and...
Dave Williams, Lung Cancer Survivor
Going to my first chemotherapy infusion, I felt like a ball of nerves. The shock of being diagnosed with lung cancer was still fresh in my mind, and I didn’t feel ready to start this terrifying...
The Rise of Wearable Health Technology
We now live in an era where our heart rhythm, blood pressure, blood glucose levels and sleep patterns can all be tracked and monitored by something we wear. A simple press of a button or downloading...
Lifesaving Advice from a Gastroenterologist
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in every three adults over the age of 50 fail to get their recommended colonoscopy. That reality deeply troubles Michelle Anderson,...
Ruth, Heart Attack Patient
This was Ruth’s experience when she went into Metro Health Hospital to be treated for what she later learned was a heart attack. “The next thing, I woke up in the intensive care,” remembers...