My role as a certified midwife is to go and assess patients. I can see patients in the clinic for problems including menopause care, contraception counseling, and care pregnancy throughout the labor process, and postpartum. One of the most common misconceptions that I see is that midwives do not deliver patients who want an epidural. We support whatever decision that you want.

So if you would like an epidural, we can get you an epidural. If you want to go natural, we can discuss other pain relief options before labor. Medpipes do not only see patients who are desiring pregnancy or who are pregnant. We can also see women who have any kind of women's health concern.

We can see them for their annual women's exams, such as pap smear and cancer risk identification. We can see them for birth control counseling or any issues with menopause that they might be having. It is very important for midwives to collaborate with their OBGYN.

It allows us to talk to them about any kind of risk factors or issues that our patients may be having so that we can get a fresh set of eyes on it, and they can help us address the problem. As a certified nurse midwife here at Baptist Health in Richmond, my goal is to provide the highest quality care for the patients in this area to provide the best experience possible. I chose to stay in a small community in Eastern Kentucky because I like how the personable feel it is when you take care of your own people in your own community. I wanted to give back to the community.

Flu is one of several viruses that we see that comes in a seasonal pattern.

So typically we'll see flu start to creep into our communities around October and then really hit hard in November and December. There are typically upper respiratory infectious type symptoms, cough, congestion, sore throat, fevers, chills, all that sort of stuff is associated with it, and it spreads rampant. It goes throughout a whole entire household. One person brings it home and then everybody in the house is affected.

Here at Baptist Health, we are equipped to handle all sorts of illnesses, but especially the flu. We swab your nose and it comes back in about, thirty or forty minutes and tells you whether or not you have influenza. So if you or other family members feel like you have the flu, this is the place to be. We're able to help you out.

If you present in the first forty eight hours and you have certain risk factors, we can write you Tamiflu, which is one of the medicines that we use to combat the influenza virus. And that's what we're here for. We're here to help. So the influenza vaccine is not only beneficial for you, but it's also beneficial for your family, your friends.

If you do come down with the flu, you're not shedding as much virus as you would if you were unvaccinated. So it's not only a decision for yourself, it's a decision for your family members. And it just shows that you care.

When someone's diagnosed with a breast cancer, very frequently, I'm the first person that they'll see along the treatment planning pathway, and I really help lay the groundwork for the next steps, sometimes that's surgery. But frequently, patients have told me that they thought that they had to have a mastectomy. They would have to have a large radical surgery to remove their whole breast to treat this problem. When in reality, a lot of patients are candidates and could proceed with breast conservation or just removing a part of the breast where that breast cancer is and do really well overall with really no significant impact on their overall survival or how long they're gonna live after this diagnosis.

Baptist Health Louisville has a really interesting and unique partnership where all of the specialties providing care for our breast cancer patients are in close communication on a regular basis. Medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, all of us working together with a focus on breast cancer creates individuals who are really dedicated to serving their patients the best that they can. I think one of the hardest things about breast cancer is the fear that goes along with diagnosis. And with what we know know about breast cancer, being able to answer patients' questions in the beginning about all their treatment options, kind of lay out the roadwork for what this is most likely gonna look like, and assuage a lot of that fear is a great gift that I can give patients, and there's nothing better than being able to give hope at the end of the day. And that makes me feel awesome.

Baptist Health Paducah Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, we treat, a wide variety of musculoskeletal complaints, injuries, but also, you know, patients that are not necessarily an athlete or involved in a specific sport, but just, you know, have something that's bothering them that's, a joint pain, a muscle pain, that sort of thing. Non surgical treatments for many orthopedic conditions that we treat would include things like medications to help with the symptoms that they're having, which is typically pain, swelling. In addition to oral medications, we may use things like joint injections, steroid injections.

Physical therapy is a huge part of the treatment, algorithm for orthopedic conditions. So we are utilizing our physical therapy partners a lot to help patients through their orthopedic condition or injury. The body itself can do a really good job at healing these injuries. So sometimes all we need to do is help help determine, is this something that we need to intervene on, or is this something that we can watch and allow the body to do its job? When there are things that come up that need more than what we can do in the office, we consult with our surgical colleagues and get them in the appropriate hands. So if a patient has an injury that's affecting their sleep, affecting their job, making it where they can't participate in day to day activities the way they want to, they should call us and we can help sort that out.

Here at Baptist Health Medical Group Pediatrics, we provide comprehensive care for, infants from birth until school age, most of the time till eighteen years old. We're a comprehensive office, so pretty much anything you need, we can treat here. And we work closely with our ER physicians for anything we feel like we're not capable of treating, we talk with them. I think it's important for you to bring your child to the same person regularly, important for you to bring a child to the same person regularly, not only for well checks, but for sick visits, especially for milestones and development.

You can't judge that by one visit. I've gotta be able to get to know your kid and know how they've progressed over time. I'm gonna know what's normal for them. I'm gonna know what's abnormal for them, and I'm gonna be able to see more where I might need to intervene.

I don't want parents to be afraid to ask me things. I want them to come in my office knowing that I'm gonna listen and that I'm gonna do whatever I need to do because I want your kids to be healthy. So I'm gonna do my best to bring you the most evidence based practices.

I want people to not be afraid of vaccines. I want them to know that preventative care is always better than retroactively, you know, reacting to something once it's happened. And I think that's one of the main things for pediatrics is preventative care so we can keep your kids healthy.

At Oldham County EMS, we are the emergency medical service for Oldham County. We provide twenty four seven, three sixty five coverage to the county for nine one one calls. We have advanced stroke life support that is required for all of our advanced providers. We also attain special pediatric training as well as our neonatal resuscitation for the smallest of our patients.

We operate twenty four seven, three sixty five. All of our trucks are staffed advanced life support, meaning they have a paramedic or an advanced EMT on the ambulances. We are accredited by the commission of ambulance services. There's twenty three thousand EMS services in the United States.

Only one hundred and eighty seven are CAS accredited. We have off-site interviewers come in and perform a two day audit basically of our service because any service can put on paper what they do, but we actually have to prove what we do as far as going above and beyond any nationally recognized agencies to get this accreditation.

Our employees are very proud to wear this uniform. They're proud to be affiliated with Odum County EMS and Baptist Health, and I want everybody in this community to know that we live our mission daily. We strive with our training to be the best of the best, and we will always show up on their worst day, and we will give them the best patient care possible because we have the best that serves this community.

Pediatric therapy is the treatment of kids anywhere from birth to up to twenty one. It works on gross motor coordination, balance, play skills, sensory needs, activities of daily living, functional mobility, speech therapy skills, feeding skills. There's a lot of things that it can cover.

Aaron was born at thirty one weeks. When he was born, he wasn't breathing for quite a while, and that caused brain damage. And so he has cerebral palsy, which has caused his right side to be weaker than it should. So we ended up seeking out physical therapy and occupational therapy. He's been seeing therapists in this office since he was about four, and he's twelve now.

We set goals anytime we evaluate a patient, and we will use standardized tests. We'll use measures. For physical therapy, we may look at range of motion and strength. We measure those goals continuously.

Each session, we're looking at that. How well did they do compared to the week before? How did they do compared to the month before? And we keep track that way.

We have a lot of equipment that we can use to keep things safe. We have a harness that we can wear. We have different types of harnesses for our treadmill. We use gate belts.

We teach safe mechanics to the parents, and we also are always there with them one on one.

Aaron has done physical therapy to help him build strength and ability to do things like walk. When he was younger, they told me he would never be able to walk without a device.

Physical therapy has helped get him stronger and build him up to where he can now walk without the therapist's help.

I think the thing that I like the most about working with children is seeing kids make these milestones that are so meaningful to them and seeing that on their faces when they meet that goal and see the parents light up when they see them do that is really rewarding.

It has been emotional to watch his progress. The first time I saw my son put his foot flat on the ground, and I never thought he would be able to do that. And I got so emotional, and I'm crying, and all the therapists are crying, and we're all cheering, just knowing that they love my son as much as I do, and they want what's best for him as much as I do.

And they work and fight as much as I do for him to overcome every single obstacle that he faces.