Recent Press Releases

• July 31, 2019 Baptist Health Richmond Cancer Care partners with The Boutique at Merle Norman to provide on-site Wig Boutique for cancer patients

  Baptist Health Richmond and The Boutique at Merle Norman are partnering to provide an on-site Wig Boutique for patients receiving care at Baptist Health Richmond Cancer Care. The Wig Boutique will be open in Cancer Care monthly on August 19, September 16, October 21 and November 18. More dates will be scheduled.

• July 31, 2019 Baptist Health Richmond welcomes Thomas Whealton DO

  Thomas Whealton, DO, joined the Baptist Health Richmond Medical Staff and opened his practice Atlas Pain and Spine, PLLC on July 1, 2019.

• July 31, 2019 Baptist Health Corbin Lexington and Richmond earn national recognition for promoting organ eye and tissue donation

  Baptist Health Corbin, Lexington and Richmond have earned platinum level recognition for their efforts to increase organ, eye, and tissue donor registrations across the state, through the Workplace Partnership for Life (WPFL) Hospital Organ Donation Campaign.

• July 30, 2019 Three Baptist Health hospitals rank in top six for Kentucky in 2019-20 US News and World Report listing

  Three Baptist Health hospitals ranked among the top six in Kentucky in the prestigious 2019-20 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals list.

• July 30, 2019 Baptist Health Paducah ranks 6 in Kentucky in 2019-20

  For the first time, Baptist Health Paducah has been ranked sixth in Kentucky in the 2019-20 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals ranking.

• July 26, 2019 Get With The Guidelines

  Baptist Health Lexington receives Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award

• July 26, 2019 Get With The Guidelines Bronze

  Baptist Health Lexington received Get With The Guidelines AFib Bronze Quality Achievement Award

• July 25, 2019 Baptist Health Richmond partners with Triple Crown Concrete to raise awareness for breast cancer

  Baptist Health Richmond is partnering with Triple Crown Concrete, (a division of Hinkle Contracting Company, LLC) to host the unveiling of their new pink concrete truck on Friday, July 26 at 1:30 p.m. at Baptist Health Richmond.

• July 19, 2019 Baptist Health Paducah cancer program earns 7th consecutive accreditation

  The Ray & Kay Eckstein Regional Cancer Care Center at Baptist Health Paducah opened its doors two years ago this summer, but it houses a cancer program that has been nationally accredited for almost 20 years.

• July 19, 2019 Hospital President Selected to serve on American Hospital Associations Task Force

  The American Hospital Association recently commissioned The Future of Rural Health Care task force to work with legislators to help draft policies to address the healthcare challenges in rural communities.