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“This was going to be over in three months, six months, nine months and now it is a year later, so we are still here. We are still fighting this virus. We are thankful to have vaccine and doing a lot of vaccinations,” said Anthony Powers, President of Baptist Health Corbin, during his welcome at the Baptist Health Corbin Employee Recognition event Feb. 3. The hospital hosted a small ceremony where Corbin Mayor Suzie Razmus presented the hospital with a Celebration of Heroes Proclamation tha...

CORBIN — Last week, around 20-30 staff members at Baptist Health Corbin filed into the hospital’s cafeteria as part of an employee appreciation event led by Baptist Health President Anthony

1 of 4 Mayor Suzie Razmus along with Baptist Health Corbin President Anthony Powers, Corbin City Manager Marlon Sams, and hospital staff pose with the plaque presented to the hospital Wednesday evening.  Baptist Health Corbin President Anthony Powers thanked hospital staff during an employee appreciation event held Wednesday.  Mayor Razmus delivered words of gratitude and thankfulness to hospital staff before presenting a plaque and signing the proclamatio...

Baptist Health Corbin’s President Anthony Powers recently presented the Corbin Rotary Club with a check worth $6,180 for its Empty Stocking Fun. The money comes from employees, who purchase “blue jean stickers” for $2 to wear on Friday’s, said a spokesperson from the hospital. “The money is collected all year and then is used to help our employees and their families at Christmas time. We donate the extra to help our community,” said the spokesperson. In addition to presenting the ch...

(Editor’s note: Towards the end of December, news organizations across the world annually publish lists of the top stories from each year. Let’s face it, COVID-19 is going to be the top story on pretty much every top 10 list everywhere. Given that 2020 is a year unlike any others, the staff of the News Journal has decided to do a top 10 list unlike any other. With in-person classes canceled for the rest of the school year, and traditional graduations not possible because of COVID–19, loca...

Officials at Baptist Health Corbin announced Tuesday that the Pfizer COVID–19 vaccine  has arrived on site. The hospital was one of 11 across Kentucky that Gov. Andy Beshear announced would be recipients of the initial shipment as part of the effort to immunize frontline healthcare workers. The shipment contained 975 doses of the vaccine, which will be offered to the employees, with vaccinations to begin today “No one will be forced to take it,” said Debbie Hardin, Marketing Director at ...

COVID-19 vaccinations are now underway for employees at Baptist Health Corbin, which was one of the first 11 hospital in Kentucky to receive the vaccine and administer the first shipments of the vaccine. Baptist Health Corbin CEO Anthony Powers gives the thumbs up as he prepared to get his COVID-19 vaccination Wednesday morning. “Our first group of employees to receive doses of a vaccine to protect against the COVID-19 (virus) included members of the housekeeping staff, physicians, nurses, ou...

On Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear celebrated that COVID-19 vaccinations have begun in the commonwealth. The Governor watched as five doctors and nurses from UofL Health first received the vaccine this morning. Soon after, other health care workers from UofL Health, Baptist Health Lexington and the Medical Center at Bowling Green began receiving inoculations. To learn more, see the full release and these photos (credit: Scotty Perry/Bloomberg) and video (credit: UofL Health). “Today is the most ...