Baptist Well being Hardin’s Wellness on Wheels is lending a serving to hand to Baptist Well being Deaconess Madisonville following the lack of the Dawson Springs clinic through the twister and extreme climate system that tore by western Kentucky the weekend of Dec. 11.
In keeping with Assistant Vice President Steve White, that they had their Wellness on Wheels cell well being unit on website that Sunday, prepared to be used on Monday.
“Members of our staff went to Dawson Springs and arrange the tent and the cell well being unit, after which had been capable of return dwelling as their employees is now seeing sufferers,” he mentioned. “We are going to depart our belongings there till a brand new modular clinic is delivered — in all probability about two weeks. The modular will keep in place till the clinic is rebuilt from the bottom up.”
As of Friday, White mentioned the car employees had seen greater than 40 sufferers.
Cheryl McKnight, apply supervisor at Baptist Well being Deaconess Medical Group Dawson Springs, mentioned they nonetheless had been seeing sufferers are available with minor accidents from the twister together with puncture wounds.
“Baptist Well being Hardin has come by for Baptist Well being Dawson Springs, and in such an outstanding approach, donating the usage of a cell unit, a tent we are able to use for triage and a generator,” she mentioned. “With out this stuff we couldn’t proceed to serve our neighborhood as we’re doing now.”
Moreover, McKnight mentioned some Baptist Well being staff even collected objects for a few of their individuals who had misplaced houses.
“It was simply superb that somebody who doesn’t know us could be so beneficiant. There are not any phrases to say thanks for one thing like that. It’s simply above and past something we may have ever anticipated,” she mentioned. “In addition they loaded up a automobile with snacks and provides and personally introduced that right here. It means the world to us.”
Baptist Well being Basis has established an emergency help fund to assist Baptist Well being staff affected by the catastrophic climate occasions in Kentucky. Donations could be made at supportbaptisthealth.org/emergencyassistance.
Mary Alford could be reached at 270-505-1417 or malford@thenewsenterprise.com.
