Employee stories - Norton Healthcare, News

Positive experience leads patient to become employee

NPride, Norton Healthcare’s LGBTQ and allies’ employee resource group, celebrates Pride Month by recognizing a few of our notable employee members. The patient experience is important at Norton Healthcare. We…

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Bike to Beat Cancer | Carolyn Wallace: Why I ride

Eighteen years ago, at age 38, Carolyn Wallace was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. Years after chemotherapy and radiation, Carolyn is living cancer-free. Then more devastating news: Her then 3-year-old…

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Norton Healthcare doubles down on inclusion strategy

“Respect every person” is one of Norton Healthcare’s values, the foundation for how our organization conducts itself as we provide care for our patients and create a positive culture for…

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Getting an active life back through bariatric weight loss surgery

As Brandon Lewis’s once active lifestyle slowed dramatically over time, he began noticing issues like high blood pressure and chest pain. A teacher, he didn’t have energy for his music…

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Passion for inclusion drives employee to make a change

NPride, Norton Healthcare’s LGBTQ and allies’ employee resource group, celebrates Pride Month by recognizing a few of our notable employee members. Nick Clark, manager in Norton Healthcare’s marketing and communications…

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Respiratory therapist provides comfort to grieving family

When treating others with compassion is a core part of your values, it hardly seems like something that warrants special thanks. At least that’s how a modest person like Mike…

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Norton executive Lynnie Meyer steps out of the shadows

  NPride, Norton Healthcare’s resource group for LGBTQ employees and allies, celebrates Pride Month by recognizing a few of our notable employee members. “I no longer live in the shadows,”…

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Behavioral Health, Suicide

Recent celebrity suicides bring awareness and discussion of how family and friends can help

  After two high-profile deaths, calls and texts to crisis hotlines have risen by 65 percent. The deaths have many people talking about suicide. Were there warning signs family and…

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Atrial Fibrillation, Employee stories - Norton Healthcare, Heart

Meet electrophysiology nurse practitioner Rob Rogers, APRN

  Rob Rogers, APRN, is an electrophysiology nurse practitioner with the Norton Heart & Vascular Institute Heart Rhythm Center. In his role as a heart specialist, he talks with patients…

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Neurologist has been caring for multiple sclerosis community for four decades

After five decades of caring for patients in the River City, Roy Meckler, M.D., has been dubbed Louisville’s “godfather of neurology.” Dr. Meckler specializes in treating multiple sclerosis (MS), a…

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Employee stories - Norton Healthcare, Recruiting

Nurse finds strength, hope from employee resource group

NPride, Norton Healthcare’s resource group for LGBTQ employees and allies, celebrates Pride Month by recognizing a few of our notable employee members. Verity Owens, R.N., is a nurse at Norton…

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Cancer, Cancer 2021, Employee stories - Norton Healthcare, News

Cancer specialist looks to help solve Amelia Earhart mystery

As a cancer specialist and neuro-oncologist at Norton Cancer Institute, Renato V. LaRocca, M.D., diagnoses and treats high-grade brain tumors and other solid tumors. Last summer, he applied the same…

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