Source: The News-Enterprise The Hardin Memorial Health Auxiliary recently awarded 20 scholarships worth $1,000 each to students from across the region who are pursuing a degree in the medical field. According to a news release from the organization, the auxiliary scholarship program has been in place for close to three decades. This year was especially competitive with approximately 70 students applying from all around HMH’s 10-county region, the release said. HMH … [Read more...]
It’s a volunteer life for Howell / News-Enterprise Wednesday’s Woman
Source: The News-Enterprise Giving back is the focus of this third of Pat Howell’s life. The 69-year-old uses a phrase she heard from AARP to describe the sections of a person’s life. “Our lives are divided into thirds,” Howell said. “The first third of our life we’re born, we learn who we are and we get our education.” The second third is made up of job, family, home and our spouse, she said. “In the third part, we retire and we give back to all those who have touched … [Read more...]
Editorial: Pumped about HMH event / The News-Enterprise
Source: The News-Enterprise PUMPED ABOUT HMH EVENT. In four short years, a fashion show staged by Hardin Memorial Health and the HMH Foundation has become an annual local favorite. It’s more than a fundraiser. Purses, Pumps and Prevention has become a source of encouragement for cancer sufferers. It raises awareness about the disease and demonstrates that it’s possible to thrive as well as survive following a cancer diagnosis. The models are at various points in their personal battle … [Read more...]
IBM Watson Imaging AI makes world debut at HMH / WAVE3
Source: WAVE3 By Makayla Ballman | May 6, 2019 at 2:17 PM EDT - Updated May 6 at 2:17 PM ELIZABETHTOWN, KY (WAVE) - Hardin Memorial Health radiologists became the world’s first to “go live” with IBM Watson Imaging Patient Synopsis – one of the newest, most advanced tools available for medical imaging professionals. Watson combines artificial intelligence (AI) and analytical software to answer questions. “In healthcare alone, there are countless … [Read more...]
Hardin Memorial on cutting-edge with IBM technology / The News-Enterprise
Source: The News-Enterprise With a small action Monday, Hardin Memorial Health became the world’s first institution to go live with IBM Watson Imaging Patient Synopsis. As Hardin Memorial Health radiologist Jesse Bryant officially logged in to make IBM Watson Imaging Patient Synopsis available to the entire HMH imaging team. Witnessed by senior leaders, it put Hardin Memorial Health radiologists on the cutting edge with IBM Watson technology, which those present described as one of … [Read more...]
Event allows fun, fashion, awareness to share stage / The News-Enterprise
Source: The News-Enterprise Laura Hay was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in October 2017 at age 38. “I had never had a mammogram, never had anything, because I wasn’t 40,” she said. Hay, who was one of the models in Hardin Memorial Health’s annual Purses, Pumps and Prevention fashion show Thursday evening, said the idea that something could be wrong with her arose when she felt a knot on her breast. She said she immediately went to see Dr. Shannon Holt … [Read more...]
Joe Prather deserves community recognition / The News-Enterprise
Source: The News-Enterprise Listening to Joe Prather’s speak in his precise, measure baritone voice, it’s hard to think of him as an upstart. But that’s what he was in November 1967 when he challenged incumbent legislator Martin Louis Straney for the state representative’s seat. After all, Prather was a young businessman barely a decade removed from graduation at Vine Grove High School. Few could have predicted the impact he would have in the next half century. An oft-recounted story … [Read more...]
Fifth-graders tour today’s high-tech care / The News-Enterprise
Source: The News-Enterprise About 20 fifth-grade students from St. James Catholic School, Heartland and Morningside Elementary schools laughed with and at one another Friday inside an auditorium on the fifth floor of the hospital as they “scrubbed in.” While donning a cleanroom suit, or bunny suit, which is an overall garment worn in a cleanroom, an environment with a controlled level of contamination, the students left the auditorium for a tour of an operating suite and a … [Read more...]
Prather honored at Boy Scouts’ Distinguished Citizen dinner
Source: The News-Enterprise Joe Prather, along with other former and current Boy Scouts, saluted with three fingers Tuesday evening and recited the Scout Oath, which states, “On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times: to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.” At 79 years old, Prather continues to uphold that oath. More than 300 people gathered at Grace … [Read more...]
HMH: Healthy as Ever / The News-Enterprise Editorial
Source: The News-Enterprise While attorneys exchange legal documents in the appeal process, life continues as normal for Hardin Memorial Health. The sale of the hospital and its nearly 50 related health care entities to Baptist Health remains on hold while a legal challenge brought by retired local physician and former HMH chief medical officer Dr. Larry Hall continues. That unexpected delay easily could led to operational inertia grinding to a halt. But the HMH leadership including … [Read more...]
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