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Welcome Erin Brumley, MD
PADUCAH, KY - Lourdes and Mercy Medical Associates recently welcomed Erin Brumley, MD; Maegan Moryl, Nurse Practitioner; and Keisha Snow, Nurse Practitioner to their medical teams in Benton and Paducah. Erin Brumley joins the Lourdes Emergency Department. She graduated from St. Mary High School, Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Brumley comes to Lourdes from University Hospital in Louisville. She is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and the American Medical Association.
MCCH Welcomes Dr. Heath Cates
To Murray Pediatrics
MURRAY, KY - Heath Cates, M.D., has joined Murray Pediatrics at Murray-Calloway County Hospital to provide pediatric services beginning August 3. Cates is a 2012 M.D. graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and a 2007 B. A. Cum Laude graduate of Murray State University. He recently completed a residency in pediatrics at Kosair Children's Hospital/University of Louisville School of Medicine. He was a Kosair Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Assistant in 2009 and has been named a Trover Rural Health Scholar, a West Kentucky Rural Health Scholar and given the Gold Humanism Honor Society Award. He has been published and has presented on several pediatric topics during and before his residency, including his quality improvement research regarding care of infants with bronchiolitis. He has participated in several leadership activities including annual election to the University of Louisville Pediatric Resident Leadership Council during his residency. An adoption advocate, self-proclaimed "foodie" and dog-lover, Cates also enjoys singing and playing music on the bass guitar and keyboard, attending church services and Bible studies, traveling, hiking, fishing, cycling and running. Cates will be joining Murray Pediatrics in the Medical Arts Building at 803 Poplar Street in Murray. For more information call 270.759.9223.
DR. PAMELA HODGES JOINS BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL
GROUP OB/GYN
PADUCAH, KY - Pamela Hodges, MD, has joined Blair Tolar, MD, and Amber Savells, MD, at Baptist Health Medical Group OB/GYN. A graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Dr. Hodges completed a residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics/Gynecology (FACOG) and is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology.
MURRAY CALLOWAY ENDOWMENT FOR HEALTHCARE RECEIVES $1,000 FOR NEW 3D DIGITAL BREAST IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
MURRAY, KY - The Murray Calloway Endowment for Healthcare recently received a $1,000 donation from Burton and Cathy Young to support the Because She Matters campaign. The 'Because She Matters' campaign has been launched to raise money for Tomosynthesis (3-D mammography) and Molecular breast imaging that will detect breast cancer earlier and more effectively. The initiative is set to raise $500,000 for the purchase of the equipment which would directly benefit patients within our community and surrounding area. Please help support these efforts by donating; text "Matters" to 91999. All donations will go directly towards the purchase of tomosynthesis for Murray-Calloway County Hospital's mammography department. For more information on how you can make a donation, contact Keith Travis, VP of Development at 270.762.1908.
Photo by Kyser Lough / Murray-Calloway County Hospital
MCCH Blood Donor Center Receives Stellar Rating
PADUCAH, KY - The Blood Donor Center at Murray-Calloway County Hospital was given a stellar "no deficiencies" rating by the Office of Inspector General after a recent visit. Pictured, from left, Janet Valadez, Blood Donor recruiter, Linda Cavitt, Laboratory Director and Teresa Starks, Blood Bank Coordinator. To give the gift of life and donate blood, call (270) 762-1119.
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Baptist Health Presents Defibrillators to Churches
By WestKyStar & Baptist Health Staff
PADUCAH, KY - The Congregational Network for Healthcare at Baptist Health Paducah recently presented automated external defibrillators to 15 rural churches.. Training also was provided.
The Congregational Network for Healthcare was a new initiative launched last year to improve the health of our community by partnering with local churches. The network’s aim is to provide a continuity of care to patients after they leave the hospital with the help of volunteers representing congregations throughout the region.
The funding for the defibrillators was provided by Baptist Health Foundation Paducah and the Baptist Health Auxiliary. Churches were chosen based on their rural locations and distance from available medical assistance. They are also members of the network.
The churches are Antioch Baptist, Barlow; First Baptist and Providence Baptist, Kevil; La Center First Baptist; St. Charles Catholic, Bardwell; St. Denis Catholic, Fancy Farm; Melber Church of Christ; Community Fellowship Baptist, Hickory; Sugar Creek Baptist and Lake City Baptist, Grand Rivers; Ledbetter United Methodist; Smithland United Methodist; New Bethel Missionary Baptist and Briensburg United Methodist, Benton, and Heath Church of Christ, West Paducah.
“Our Congregational Network for Healthcare navigators, Rick Johnson and Ruthanne Cockrell, have been working for almost a year to secure funding and recognize churches that have a need for an AED,” said Joel Jackson, interim director of pastoral care. “Many churches have voiced an interest in having their own defibrillators and we are happy to be able to provide this potential life-saving device. The network is just another way we can demonstrate the love of Christ by providing and coordinating care and improving health in our communities.”
For more information about the Congregational Network for Healthcare, phone 270-415-7695 or 270-415-7694.
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Congregational Network for Healthcare navigators Ruthanne Cockrell, RN, and Rick Johnson, (right), receive an automated external defibrillator from Baptist Auxiliary members Troy and Carol Utley, while outreach director Patrick Withrow, MD, looks on.
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HUDSON JOINS LOURDES AND
MERCY MEDICAL STAFF
PADUCAH, KY - Samantha Hudson, APRN recently joined Lourdes and Mercy Medical Heart and Lung Surgery.
Hudson is a Certified Cardiovascular Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner. She is a graduate of Murray State University and the University of Southern Indiana.
Hudson is a member of the Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American College of Cardiology and the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses. She comes to Lourdes from Baptist Health Medical Group.
Zandra Farley was named the 2016 Sister Mary Eleanor Mission award winner during Lourdes annual service awards banquet.
PADUCAH, KY - Farley is a 25-year employee of Lourdes where she serves as Director of Perioperative Services. Her peers nominated her for exhibiting the core values and mission of Lourdes in helping extend the healing ministry of Jesus.
“Zandra is a true servant leader,” says Wayne Reid, Lourdes Chief Operating Officer. “She has the ability of touching people at their deepest level. Her leadership skills and calming voice enables her to create a listening environment that makes it easy to get her point across in a very positive manner. She is under constant pressure from all sides yet maintains the mission and core values as a senior leader.”
The Sister Mary Eleanor Mission Award, established in 1988, is named for Sister Mary Eleanor Rahig, a leader in the first group of St. Franciscan Sisters at Lourdes who set the standard for patient care and employee relationships that truly continue the healing mission of Christ.
Beginning with their first day, September 19, 1959, the sisters inspired those employed at Lourdes to work to exhibit behaviors toward one another, patients, family, physicians, volunteers and visitors, that assure the mission of Lourdes is effectively and mutually experienced.
Each year the organization recognizes one leader who has been visible in exemplifying Lourdes’ core values of excellence, human dignity, justice, compassion, sacredness of life, and service.
The award was announced and presented during the organization’s annual service awards banquet held in January.
Michael Yungmann, Lourdes President and CEO, Sr. Vice President, Mercy Health and Zandra Farley, Lourdes 2016 Mission Award Winner
PHOTO: Lourdes
The Advanced Wound Healing Center at Jackson Purchase Medical Center has been recognized with a national award for clinical excellence, as a Center of Distinction. The award is awarded by Healogics, a leading wound care management company. The center achieved outstanding clinical center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a wound healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 31 median days.
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Baptist Health Paducah's Carson Myre Heart Center was dedicated on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. PHOTO:Baptist Health Paducah
BAPTIST HEALTH DEDICATES
CARSON-MYRE HEARTH CENTER
PADUCAH, KY - The Baptist Heart Center was renamed the Carson-Myre Heart Center Thursday in a dedication ceremony.
The event honored the late Jane Carson Myre, daughter of local Coca-Cola founder Luther F. Carson, and her husband, the late Louis Myre, MD, a Baptist Health Paducah heart care pioneer.
The Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation, started by the couple, has provided the lead gift for heart services in the “Celebrating Miracles, Transforming Lives” capital campaign recently launched by Baptist Health Foundation Paducah.
The foundation has supported cardiac care at Baptist Health Paducah since before the heart center opened in 2007. Their gifts have funded cardiac rehabilitation and various new technology, including last year’s enhancement of the region’s first electrophysiology lab to diagnose and treat irregular heartbeat, or problems with the electrical system of the heart.
Dr. Myre was on staff at Baptist approximately 30 years before retiring in the mid-1980s. In the 1960s, he, along with Drs. C. Pittman Orr and W.P. (Pete) Hall, set up the hospital’s first cardiac ward with five beds. The hospital’s historic cardiac program grew to offer the area’s first open-heart surgery in 1985 and first nationally-accredited chest pain center in 2008.
“Dr. Myre was an essential part of Baptist Health becoming the region’s heart hospital,” said Judge William Howerton, chairman of the Carson-Myer Charitable Foundation. “We know Dr. Myer and Jane would be very honored to see their names on the hospital they loved so much.”
William A. Brown, hospital president, said the hospital is grateful for the legacy of Dr. Louis and Jane Carson Myre. “Our continued relationship with their Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation has helped us become one of the most respected hospitals in the state for cardiovascular care,” he said.
Baptist announced a $10 million campaign in January to support cancer, cardiac and maternity care, as well as outreach programs to improve the health of the community. “Celebrating Miracles, Transforming Lives,” the first-ever comprehensive capital campaign in the 64-year history of Baptist Health Paducah, has already raised $7.6 million.
For more information or to make a donation, contact the Foundation at 270.575.2871 or visit SupportBaptistHealth.org/Paducah.
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CRAWFORD JOINS MURRAY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES AT MURRAY-CALLOWAY
COUNTY HOSPITAL
MURRAY, KY - Murray-Calloway County Hospital (MCCH) is proud to welcome Kathy Crawford, APRN, FNP-BC, to Murray Medical Associates.
Kathy attended Murray State University where she received her Bachelors’ Degree in Nursing in 2003. She has over 14 years of nursing experience and has worked in various departments including the Emergency Room and Critical Care Unit. She completed her Family Nurse Practitioner Certification (APRN) from Chamberlain College of Nursing in 2016.
“I look forward to providing the highest quality of care to our friends and neighbors,” said Kathy.
Beginning May 1st, Kathy is available to see patients Thursday - Monday and will be seeing all patients including pediatric patients on the weekends.
Neurologist Joseph Ashburn, MD, Baptist Health Stroke Medical Director
BAPTIST HEALTH PADUCAH STROKE PROGRAM RECEIVES NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD
PADUCAH, KY — The Baptist Health Paducah stroke program joined an elite group by being honored for the second consecutive year with The Get With the Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for meeting national guidelines for stroke care, as outlined by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
Baptist Health Paducah is the only Kentucky hospital west of Louisville with this level of recognition. In addition, the hospital received the associations’ Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite for meeting stroke quality measures that reduce the time between hospital arrival and treatment with the clot-busting drug known as tPA. If given intravenously in the first three hours after the start of stroke symptoms, tPA has been shown to significantly reduce the effects of stroke and lessen the chance of permanent disability.
“This award says we strive for the best possible care for our patients,” said neurologist Joseph Ashburn, MD, stroke services director. “While meeting the minimum requirements for a stroke center is considered acceptable, we at Baptist Health believe the people of our region deserve nothing less than the very best medicine has to offer. We are always moving forward to take it to the next level.”
Baptist Health Paducah: Eli’s Story
PADUCAH, KY - Randall Resser, MD, chronicles the story of Eli, describing how he and the family persevered to diagnose his Hodgkin’s lymphoma so he could begin treatment.
INTERNAL MEDICINE GROUP JOINS
MERCY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
PADUCAH, KY - Lourdes and Mercy Medical Associates now include Dr. Mae Fischer, Dr. Polly LeBuhn, Dr. James Long, Dr. Joseph Pittard, Dr. Melissa Purvis and Dr. Richard Smith, formerly of Internal Medicine Group. This association is called Mercy Internal Medicine. These physicians are joining the largest multi-specialty group in the region, Mercy Medical Associates.Also joining Mercy Internal Medicine are Aaron Hayden, PA-C, Diane Green, APRN, Felicia Cooper, APRN, and Judith Ervin, LCSW. They began seeing patients on June 8.Mercy Internal Medicine is located at 225 Medical Center Drive, Suite 201 in the Lourdes Medical Pavilion. To schedule an appointment, call 270-444-4250.
BAPTIST HEALTH CELEBRATES OPENING
OF ECKSTEIN CANCER CENTER
PADUCAH, KY - "This is one of the most exciting days in our 64-year history," said Bill Brown, president of Baptist Health Paducah, as he welcomed staff, dignitaries and invited guests to the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the Ray and Kay Eckstein Regional Cancer Care Center Tuesday afternoon.
The new $19.1 million, 44,000-square-foot center will be open for tours from 2 to 3 p.m. today for cancer survivors and their families, and 3 to 5 p.m. for the public.
Informal 10-15 minute tours will be provided. Those attending will be able to see areas of the center that will be public as well as radiation and chemotherapy treatment rooms that will be visible only to staff and patients when the center begins providing services July 10.
"The purpose of this facility," Brown said, "is to make life easier for people fighting this disease." Brown recognized Ray Eckstein, the entire Eckstein family and members of the Ray and Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust, which provided the lead gift for the cancer center. Brown referred to it as "the largest gift of the $10 million capital campaign" the hospital is currently conducting. He also expressed condolences to the Eckstein family on their loss of Kay Eckstein, who died last week
