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FROM OUR PRESIDENT
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“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have immense respect for our health care partners — and never more so than during the last 17 months. Lincoln Lancaster County Health Department, Nebraska Community Blood Bank, Lancaster County Medical Society — these are just a few of the organizations that play a huge role in helping all of us through the pandemic. They make us healthier.
Lincoln Fire and Rescue deserves special kudos. Its most recent cardiac arrest survival data demonstrate people in our community survive heart attacks at rates unmatched anywhere else in the nation. We’re proud to be part of this success story. You can learn more at www.lincoln.ne.gov/News/2021/7/16a.
This edition of Journeys includes our annual report on giving. You’ll read about gifts from your friends and neighbors who have helped Bryan further its mission. You also will meet, on Page 9, our board members. These trustees share their time and expertise to guide our efforts.
The pandemic has reinforced our commitment to support and collaborate with those who work so hard to make our community safe, vital and welcoming. Our total, quantifiable community benefit of more than $114 million attests to our unwavering promise, as your Nebraska-governed, nonprofit health care system, to always be there for all who turn to us for care, including those who cannot afford to pay.
Considering Emerson’s definition, our health care partners have achieved great success, and we’re all the better for it. Bryan salutes them and commits to decades of further collaboration — it’s our honor.
Bryan Health. Forward. Together.
Russ Gronewold President and Chief Executive Officer, Bryan Health
To identify concerns before they become issues, Bryan provides cardiac CT screening exams to first responders and local law enforcement. Here, Lancaster County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ben Houchin discusses the process for cardiac CT scans with radiologic technologist Jade Lohr. Thanks to the Bryan Foundation and those who donated to a Sheriff’s Department fundraising project, law enforcement officers are able to get coronary calcium scans at no charge.
