Recent Press Releases

• April 19, 2021 Baptist Health promotes opioid stewardship for Drug Take Back day

  April 24 is national Take Back Prescription Drugs Day.

• April 19, 2021 If you had COVID-19, you should still get a vaccine

  Your natural immunities don't last forever.

• April 16, 2021 Baptist Health cleans up Brown Park as part of Mayor's Give a Day event

  Eighty volunteers from Baptist Health came out to help clean up Brown Park today.

• April 16, 2021 Vaccine Effects on Women's Periods

  There's no reason to put off getting vaccinated if you're on your period.

• April 15, 2021 Baptist Health Paducah to host Spokes for Strokes bike tour June 12

  The bike tour offers 10-, 20-, 35- or 65-mile rides through southern McCracken, Marshall and Graves counties.

• April 02, 2021 Baptist Health offers virtual workshop for young women living with metastatic breast cancer

  This is a two-part session to be held on Thursday, April 15, and Thursday, April 22 from 6:30-8 p.m.

• April 01, 2021 Virtual Alzheimer's disease, dementia program set for April 22

  This educational session will include what to expect as the disease progresses.

• March 31, 2021 Dr. Emily Volk is new CMO at Baptist Health Floyd

  Dr. Volk is very involved with the College of American Pathologists and is currently the organization's president-elect.

• March 29, 2021 Baptist Health Paducah first in region to offer miniature pacemaker

  Cardiologist J. Kenneth Ford, MD is the only physician in the region able to offer this miniature pacemaker.

• March 23, 2021 Baptist Health Wound Care celebrates fifth anniversary

  Chronic wounds affect approximately 6.7 million people in the US