At 10:08 a.m. Monday, hospitals around Kentucky participated in the 2021 Donate Life flag-raising ceremony and moment of silence to honor organ, tissue and eye donors and recognize the recipients of their life-altering gifts. The event also was a way to celebrate April as National Donate Life Month. At Baptist Health Hardin, as they raised the Donate Life flag, those in attendance paused for a period of silence lasting 1:08, recognizing the 108,000 people who continue to await a … [Read more...]

Editor’s Note: Second in a series during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The local hospital’s on-call Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners program started in 2016. Five years later, the program, now known as SANE/Forensics, continues to help victims of sexual assault or abuse. Baptist Health Hardin is one of 14 hospitals in Ken­tucky that are SANE ready, BHH RN and SANE program manager Sarah Tovar said. The hospital also is one of 12 in the state listed with the International … [Read more...]

Steve White began working in the health care industry right out of high school. He cur­rently serves as assistant vice president of operations at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown. White spent 16 years at Bap­tist East Hospital in Louisville before coming to Hardin Memorial Hospital, as it was called at the time, in 1997. “It reminded me of what Bap­tist East was like when I first started. It was a great place,” he said. “And here I am still, these 24 years … [Read more...]

Source: The News-Enterprise Hardin Memorial Health Foundation leaders welcomed Casin Hubbard as their first philanthropy officer. The position was created to connect philanthropic donors with projects that improve patient care at Baptist Health Hardin, according to a news release introducing Hubbard. A Meade County native, he brings more than six years of health care industry experience to the foundation. “In seven short years, our Board of Directors and generous … [Read more...]

Source: WAVE3   By Sarah Jackson | February 8, 2021 at 8:40 AM EST - Updated February 8 at 8:40 AM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Baptist Health Hardin is offering a new treatment for patients who test positive for the coronavirus. The treatment, Bamlanivimab, is for patients who have not been admitted to the hospital but are experiencing mild to moderate symptoms and are at high risk of developing severe complications. “This cutting-edge treatment … [Read more...]

Source: The News-Enterprise Hardin Memorial Health Foundation leaders announced Friday they received a $25,000 grant from the PNC Foundation that will be used to improve the health and safety of Central Kentucky’s tiniest and most vulnerable patients. According to a news release, the PNC Foundation grant will help Baptist Health Hardin purchase new infection-resistant fetal monitor carts for BirthPlace, the hospital’s labor and delivery unit. The need for the new carts was exacerbated by … [Read more...]

Source: The News-Enterprise Baptist Health Hardin has begun offering a new treatment option for non-hospitalized patients who test positive for COVID-19, have mild-to-moderate illness and are at high-risk of developing severe complications and possible hospitalization, according to a news release. The use of Bam­lani­vimab or a combination drug (casirivimab/imdevimab) is an important step in the fight against COVID-19, the release said. It said these treatments are approved under … [Read more...]

Source: WDRB LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Baptist Health Hardin has started offering a new medical treatment for those who are battling COVID-19. The two monoclonal antibody treatments, which were emergency approved by the FDA, are made of man-made antibodies similar to the ones recovered COVID-19 patients have. Baptist Health doctors, who call the treatment "cutting edge," say before this treatment, they could only prescribe some oral treatments to patients. “SARS-CoV-2 is a virus and … [Read more...]

As many as six out of every 100 people in the United States experience Seasonal Affect­­ive Disorder, according to the American Psychological Foundation, with symptoms more common in women than in men. Also known as seasonal depression, Dr. Imran Iqbal of Baptist Health Hardin Medical Group Behavioral Health said SAD is a form of recurrent depression with a seasonal pattern. He said it is a kind of depression that has a regular temporal relationship with a particular time of the year, … [Read more...]

Source: The News-Enterprise  Born in Canada, Dr. Anesh Badiwala made his way to Eliza­bethtown to work as a hospitalist at Baptist Health Hardin. His father moved from India to Detroit in the early 1970s to pursue advanced studies in chemistry, then moved to Canada for a job. His father worked as a chemist and machine operator in the film industry at Technicolor for 34 years. His mother worked as a general laborer while raising Badiwala and his brother. “Growing … [Read more...]