Recent Press Releases

• January 27, 2022 Baptist Health Paducah makes urgent plea to the community as COVID numbers increase Paducah, KY

  Baptist Health officials are asking the community to please stop coming to the emergency department for routine tests for the COVID-19 virus.

• January 26, 2022 Baptist Health Wound Care offers help to avoid and treat winter wounds

  One of the biggest culprits of preventable wintertime wounds is heat.

• January 26, 2022 Baptist's cardiothoracic surgeon gives 38 year-old a new lease on life

  Austin Ward, MD, Baptist Health Medical Group Cardiothoracic Surgery, performed a mitral valve repair.

• January 26, 2022 The National Guard returns to Baptist Health Paducah in a support role

  The National Guard are scheduled to be on campus until April 1st.

• January 26, 2022 Baptist Health Paducah becomes region's only hospital to offer TCAR

  Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke.

• January 25, 2022 Baptist Health Richmond suspending elective procedures due to COVID-19 surge

  Effective Wednesday, Jan. 26, Baptist Health Richmond is suspending all elective procedures.

• January 24, 2022 Chief operating officer named Baptist Health Lexington president

  Chris Roty has been named president at Baptist Health Lexington.

• January 20, 2022 Baptist Health Corbin, one of three new affiliated Pharmacy Residency Programs of College of Pharmacy

  These new residency programs will bring the total number of UKCOP-affiliated pharmacy residency programs to 13.

• January 19, 2022 Baptist Health Richmond to expand behavioral health services

  In fall 2022, an 11-bed behavioral health inpatient service will open, Thrive Center at Baptist Health.

• January 18, 2022 Dr. Tathyana Fensterer joins Baptist Health Medical Group Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery team

  Now accepting new patients at Baptist Health Medical Group Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 511 Robinbrooke Blvd., Ste. 100, in Elizabethtown.