Since 1927, Methodist Dallas Medical Center has served North Texas as a leader in sophisticated, comp
Since 1927, Methodist Dallas Medical Center has served North Texas as a leader in sophisticated, compassionate medical care with world-class medical education and residency programs. We're also the main teaching and referral center for Methodist Health System and one of the leading teaching and referral hospitals in all of Texas.
For decades, heart disease has been the No. 1 cause of death for both men and women, but did you know women are significantly more likely to die or suffer heart failure after a first heart attack than men?
A female cardiologist at Methodist Dallas explains the possible reasons at Shine Online.
Women tend to die or suffer heart failure disproportionately after a heart attack — a gender gap that could be closed by improving awareness.
We continue to celebrate survivors during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Early detection saves lives, and this Dallas woman says she is living proof.
She found a lump during a self-exam when she was just 43, and it was already stage 2. She had no other symptoms!
Her message to all women at Shine Online.
Innocente Escamilla found a lump in her breast the first time she ever performed a self-exam, and that was her only warning of breast cancer.
Weight loss may be the primary motivation for bariatric surgery, but it’s only the beginning of the potentially life-changing health benefits.
From diabetes to heart disease, there are a host of chronic conditions that weight-loss surgery can help correct — and these metabolic effects often show up nearly immediately.
6 benefits of weight-loss surgery beyond shedding pounds at Shine Online.
The health benefits of weight-loss surgery go well beyond losing weight, with patients seeing results before they lose their first pound.
First, a Dallas woman received the gift of life from her sister at Methodist Dallas.
So it's only fitting she returned to the same hospital to bring a new life into the world just 3 years after her kidney transplant.
Meet her precious daughter and learn why pregnancy after transplant is becoming more common in some young patients at Shine Online.
Three years after her transplant, an expecting mother returned to Methodist Dallas Medical Center to give birth to a healthy baby girl.
Dallas ISD started school today, and other area districts aren't far behind!
No back-to-school checklist is complete without a box of tissues and a lesson on good hygiene.
Ways to keep your kid healthy in class and out of the school nurse's office at Shine Online.
From hygiene to vaccines, parents have their hands full keeping kids healthy this school year as they get back to class.
The summer heatwave is making everyone miserable, but your heart may suffer the most when temperatures hit triple digits.
When the thermometer approaches 110 degrees, the weather can stress your heart. The risk of dying from heart disease can increase dramatically.
Some ways to protect yourself and your loved ones at Shine Online.
How does your heart handle the summer temperatures? A cardiologist explains how the heat wave can worsen heart problems.
From a coma to college, this young woman's story of recovery at Methodist Dallas is one you have to see to believe.
A car wreck 3 years ago left her with a brain bleed and a fractured skull and spine. Remarkably, she just graduated from college and is getting ready for grad school.
Watch and read Rachel's survival story at Shine Online. https://shineonlinehealth.com/teen-crash-coma-to-college-grad/
She just walked across the graduation stage at The University of Texas at Arlington pain free!
This 44-year-old social worker from Lubbock recently had spine surgery at Methodist Dallas. Without it, she says she would have been in far too much pain to make that walk.
Her inspiring story of perseverance that led her to the surgical team that could finally help her at Shine Online.
After an initial spine surgery went awry, a Lubbock woman traveled 340 miles where a team of specialists helped her get back on her feet.
Father's Day is Sunday. Have you started shopping for Dad?
Well, good luck finding a gift like the one Collin Kidd gave his father!
A beautiful story of a son giving his dad the gift of life at Shine Online.
A son donated a kidney to his father who was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease at Methodist Dallas Medical Center last October.
You may have seen the recent headlines about some groups pushing to start routine breast cancer screenings earlier in a woman's life.
Is it time to start mammos routinely at 40? What's the correct age for women at higher risk?
Some answers at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/mammograms-at-40-for-some-women-thats-not-soon-enough/
Medical experts now suggest women start mammograms at 40, but is that soon enough? And how often do women need mammograms?
Happy Mother's Day!
We wanted to share one mom's story on this special day to celebrate all mothers.
Regina Evans was able to bring her daughter home from the NICU at Methodist Dallas--just a few days before Mother's Day.
Watch baby Laila leave the hospital and why that was the perfect present for her mom at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/nicu-baby-goes-home-just-in-time-for-mothers-day/
Premature baby makes a timely homecoming after nearly six weeks at Methodist Dallas Medical Center just shy of Mother's Day.
Talk about the ultimate gift!💙
Ellis County teenager Garrett Blackmon returned to the ICU at Methodist Dallas exactly one year after a fiery car crash that nearly killed him.
He and his family brought flowers for a nurse they grew especially close to during the 17 days Garrett spent on an ECMO lung bypass machine.
More on his remarkable recovery at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/ecmo-helps-teen-survive-crash/
Puppies and pizza! Two of the best things in life!😍
We celebrated this afternoon at Methodist Dallas with both in the hospital courtyard.
The hardest part might have been keeping the dogs away from the pepperoni!🤣
20 years ago today, the first liver transplant was performed at Methodist Dallas, home of our organ transplant program.
It was actually a liver and kidney transplant together. In the years that followed our transplant team has given so many patients a second chance at life.
One of them is Mike Barker, who runs races in his "running on recycled parts" T-shirt to honor his donor. Read his moving story at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/liver-transplant-patient-runs-to-honor-his-donor/
Mike Barker, liver transplant patient, is grateful to his organ donor and seeks to find joy every day in his honor.
There isn't much cuter than the Methodist Dallas NICU Preemie Reunion!😍
Several hundred of our tiniest patients and their parents came back to the hospital for a day to see the nurses and doctors who took such good care of them--sometimes for many months.
It's one of our favorite events of the year--and it's the first we have been able to host since the pandemic. We dare you not to smile!
This seemingly very healthy young man was close to death by the time he got to the emergency room at Methodist Dallas.
He was diagnosed with a rare tropical fever plus a potentially fatal condition that caused his body’s immune system to attack his own organs.
Today, he's back home and looking forward to being a dad. His remarkable recovery story at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/lung-bypass-ecmo-typhus/
When a rare disease struck, JD Reitinger needed three different breathing machines to recover, including a machine called ECMO.
This morning, we raised the Donate Life America flag over Methodist Dallas.
April is National Donate Life Month. We paused to honor organ donors and their families who give the gift of life to so many Methodist patients every year.
Transplant patient stories are some of the most emotional and inspiring that we share. Take a moment to read and watch some of them at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/tag/transplant/
A devastating motorcycle crash nearly silenced this MMA ring announcer.
But the trauma care he received at Methodist Dallas kept him alive and somehow got him back ringside.
Watch his tearful reunion with the fans as he returned to the sport he loves.
The full story of his emotional comeback at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/motorcycle-accident-mma-announcer/
Here's to a happy and healthy holiday with your loved ones!🐰🐣
To all of the wonderful physicians on our medical staff, Happy Doctors Day!😍💙
Women who are trying to get pregnant may want to shake up their diet because certain foods can boost fertility while others are best to avoid.
What diet can help with fertility and what might hurt? What about prenatal vitamins?
Some answers for those looking to expand their family at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/foods-to-eat-to-boost-your-fertility/
Certain diets can help women boost their fertility, while other foods can hurt your chances to conceive. Learn the facts.
Orthopedic trauma surgeon Dr. Danny Holland has seen some severe injuries during his time at Methodist Dallas.
But nothing compares to what he recently saw while working in a tent hospital in a war zone.
His stories from Ukraine are both heartbreaking and inspiring. Watch and read more at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/surgeon-travels-to-ukraine-to-volunteer-in-war-zone/
The war in Ukraine has devastated the country's healthcare system, and a surgeon from Methodist Dallas knew he could make a difference.
“Good morning, Mr. Kelly, and happy birthday. Please go to the hospital ASAP.”
That's the wakeup call Dallas resident Robert Kelly got on the morning of his 47th birthday.
After decades on dialysis, Robert got the ultimate gift... a kidney. As he puts it, 'those are lottery-winning odds."
His transplant journey and how he's doing now at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/kidney-transplant-on-47th-birthday-a-life-changing-gift/
Robert Kelly was looking forward to a special meal for his 47th birthday last year: a steak he had dry-aged at home and a cold beer. But dinner would have to wait because that morning Robert got the call he had been hoping for during a decade on dialysis: His wait for a new kidney […]
A really moving story about how an orthopedic trauma surgeon from Methodist Dallas treated so many patients in a makeshift hospital in war-torn Ukraine.
Thank you to FOX 4 News for sharing Dr. Danny Holland's inspiring and brave journey to help those in their time of need.
https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-surgeon-who-volunteered-to-treat-patients-in-ukraine-shares-story
Dallas surgeon Danny Holland traveled to Ukraine where he treated thousands of patients inside a portable hospital.
Pregnancy causes drastic changes in a woman’s hormones, including insulin, and for some patients that can result in gestational diabetes.
It can be dangerous for the baby and mother, especially when left untreated.
Here's 5 ways to avoid diabetes during pregnancy at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/avoiding-diabetes-during-pregnancy/
Diabetes during pregnancy can be dangerous for both the mother and child, but their are ways to manage the risks.
Blue is usually our color, but not today!🥰
Methodist Dallas was proud to celebrate National Wear Red Day to raise awareness of heart disease.❤️
This new mom credits her adorable first baby with saving her from heart disease that had gone undetected before her birth.
The 35-year-old Dallas native was in her third trimester with baby Luna when high blood pressure and an excessive amount of fluid retention forced her to have an emergency delivery 7 weeks early at Methodist Dallas!
That was just the beginning... When she didn’t bounce back after safely delivering her daughter, it led to the discovery of blockages in all of her major coronary arteries. Doctors had to perform open-heart surgery to save her.
How she and precious Luna are doing today at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/babys-arrival-reveals-heart-disease/
This patient from the Austin area has had a scary few years.
COVID-19 survivor Ray Hernandez spent six weeks of 2020 breathing through a ventilator — and that was before his windpipe collapsed last summer.
At Methodist Dallas, Ray found a surgical team that could fix his windpipe, and now every breath is a sigh of relief.
Ray's remarkable survival story at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/covid-19-survivor-breathes-easy-again-after-surgery-in-dallas/
COVID-19 survivor Ray Hernandez feels lucky to be alive after he spent six weeks of 2020 breathing through a ventilator at Methodist Dallas.
He watched his father struggle to recover from open-heart surgery decades ago so when he found out he had heart issues too, this retired Dallas real estate agent wanted to avoid the same fate.
Luckily for Kerry Walton, doctors at Methodist Dallas were able to replace one of his heart valves without opening his chest.
Learn how Kerry went home the day after his procedure and got back to traveling the world at Shine Online:
https://shineonlinehealth.com/tavr-offers-alternative-to-open-heart-surgery/
Replacing a heart valve can be done without open surgery, thanks to a minimally invasive procedure known as TAVR.
This isn't the happiest time of the year--for everyone.
For those dealing with grief and loss, the holidays can be especially tough.
6 ways to cope at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/grief-during-the-holidays/
If grief makes the holidays less joyful than they should be, these tips can offer some coping techniques to make it through the season.
Methodist Dallas is showing off its Golden Bears spirit by lighting up the campus GOLD. Congratulations to the South Oak Cliff High School football team on its back-to-back state championships. You make Oak Cliff proud!
Back to back, baby!🖤💛
Congrats to South Oak Cliff for winning state again!
Methodist Dallas is so proud of you guys!!!
https://www.nbcdfw.com/.../oak-cliff-unites.../3151391/
A come-from-behind win to claim its second consecutive state title Friday night ushered South Oak Cliff High School into unchartered territory for Dallas ISD programs and only further enhances what many see as growing momentum in southern Dallas.
How cool! Methodist Dallas patient Bob Kaiser is running his 39th straight Dallas Marathon this weekend.
The UT-Dallas professor didn't miss a race despite having both
brain and spine surgery!
Thank you to CBS DFW for featuring Bob and his neurosurgeon (and student!) Dr. Nimesh Patel.
https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/utd-professor-laces-up-for-39th-consecutive-bmw-dallas-marathon/
Bob 'Bobalu' Kaiser makes the miles seem like a stroll in the park – even running a marathon on the morning of his wedding, 37 years ago today.
Not all headaches are the same and knowing what type you suffer from may be the key to getting some relief.
The 411 on headaches from a neurologist at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/how-to-stop-a-headache-or-migraine/
Knowing what separates a migraine from another type of headache could help you head off triggers that cause these often disabling ordeals.
When a bad heart valve grounded this 88 year old, the longtime Air Force veteran and flight academy instructor needed a minimally invasive alternative to open-heart surgery.
The Methodist Dallas cardiology team got him a new valve and got him home the next day!
Go inside the operating room to watch at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/minimally-invasive-heart-valve/
Older patients who need a new heart valve but can't risk open-heart surgery have a minimally invasive alternative.
Our awesome pancreatic cancer patient from Waco made the news in his hometown!
Dennis Taylor is a retired police detective who was told his tumor was inoperable until he met the team at Methodist Dallas.
Dennis is cancer free now--and traveling the world with his wonderful wife. Thanks to 25 News KXXV for sharing his story.
https://www.kxxv.com/news/retired-waco-detective-shares-message-on-world-pancreatic-cancer-day
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers imaginable, with a five-year survival rate just above ten percent by some estimates.
As a Level 1 Trauma Center, Methodist Dallas is marking National Injury Prevention Day with our healthcare colleagues.💙
What happened to this college student is the stuff of nightmares.
A snake bit Shawn Adams on his face--right between his eyes.
He was rushed to Methodist Dallas where doctors quickly administered antivenom.
Today, we are happy to report Shawn is feeling great and back to being a normal college kid.
His story is tough to watch so it comes with a warning. You can read more about what happened and how antivenom works at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/video-college-student-recovers-from-snakebite-to-the-face/
What a moving story!
Meet the Waxahachie teen who nearly died in a fiery car accident.
Garrett Blackmon spent more than a month in the ICU at Methodist Dallas--about half that time hooked up to a special machine that could do what his severely damaged lungs couldn't.
Today, Garrett is back to being a teenager. His parents say he owes his life to the care he received at Methodist Dallas and a high-tech machine the hospital had just acquired.
Take a moment to read this remarkable survival story at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/ecmo-helps-teen-survive-crash/
After a teenager survived a car crash, an ECMO machine, short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and the Methodist team delivered prompt care.
The transplant patient reunion at Methodist Dallas is one of our favorite events of the year.💙
We usually host it close to Thanksgiving because these patients have so many reasons to be thankful.
Thanks to the generosity of donors and donor families plus the expertise of our transplant team, they have been given the gift of life.
Hundreds of patients attended--and it's always astounding to hear how many years their new organs have added to their lives.🥰
To read the inspiring stories of our transplant patients, go to Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/tag/transplant/
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Robotic surgery is so cool. 😎 Check out our surgery residents training on the robots at Methodist Dallas!
Methodist Dallas is so proud to have America's best hospital housekeeper!💙 Congrats to Lisa Gross, who cleans patient rooms on the transplant floor. As the winner of this national award, Lisa was offered an all-expense paid trip for two to anywhere in the US. Lisa opted to take the $2500 cash option so she could "spoil my 7 grandbabies." We love you, Lisa! And it was so cool to see you featured on FOX 4 News
Some moments are just priceless!😍 When the Dallas Symphony Orchestra came to play for our nurses last week, they made a stop in the NICU. One of our nurses brought little Luke out to hear them play. Luke turns 7 months old tomorrow, and this adorable guy has never been outside of Methodist Dallas. He's doing well now, but he was born very premature and has had a series of health complications since. Still, he certainly knows good music when he hears it!!!🎻💙 Happy Birthday, Luke!!!
No one should fight cancer alone!💙 That's why Methodist Dallas brings together colorectal cancer survivors to share their inspiring stories. It's always so moving to see our patients doing so well!
One year ago today, Methodist Health System made history as the first hospital in North Texas to receive COVID-19 vaccines.💙 We gave our first vaccine to Teresa Mata, an environmental services worker at Methodist Dallas. One year later, Teresa has been promoted to surgical tech in our operating rooms! So cool to look back at that historic day!
Happy Halloween weekend!😎 This year, the nurses in the NICU at Methodist Dallas dressed our adorable preemies as frontline heroes, the essential workers who have kept us all safe during the pandemic. From a sleepy firefighter to a tiny nurse with a COVID-19 vaccine to a happy little police officer with her donut, please let us know your favorite!
An important part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is honoring our incredible survivors.💓 COVID-19 has made it tough for these warriors to see each other so Methodist Dallas hosted this drive-up event last evening. Amazing to see everyone!
When Robert Gillums got the devastating diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in 2019, the longtime educator feared he would never return to his beloved students. Thanks to the care he received at Methodist Dallas and Methodist Charlton, we are happy to report this math teacher is back in the classroom in Cedar Hill. Watch his inspiring story at Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/math-teacher-pancreatic.../
Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins today! What better time to schedule your mammogram? As every survivor will tell you, early detection is key. At Methodist, we are committed to making the process as easy as possible. Start by clicking here: MethodistHealthSystem.org/BeatBreastCancer
Methodist Dallas is home to one of the largest bariatric support groups in Texas.💙 These patients haven't been able to meet in person for a year and half because of the pandemic. This week, they came together for a drive-thru rally, a chance to see their surgeons and the care teams who have helped them through their weight-loss journey. What a cool event!
Our hospital emergency rooms are not COVID-19 testing sites. Please help us keep our ERs available for your emergencies.💙 For more on what kinds of COVID-19 tests are available, including at-home kits, visit Shine Online: https://shineonlinehealth.com/at-home-covid-19-test-kits/
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