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Nursing Assistant Receives Lifesaving Treatments & Double-Lung Transplant

From a Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis to acute respiratory distress syndrome, Marche Sheppard experienced an array of medical issues before Sutter Roseville and Cedars-Sinai saved her life.

Nursing assistant Marche Sheppard’s medical journey went from bad to worse when a terrible cold turned into acute respiratory distress syndrome while being treated for Stage 1 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Marche was airlifted to Sutter Roseville Medical Center to treat her infection where she received ECMO treatments before getting a double-lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai. “I truly forgot I was in the hospital because of their treatment,” Marche says about the hospital and medical team who saved her life.

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