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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Effective Thursday, May 13, Baptist Health has expanded eligibility for the two-dose Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to all residents 12 years of age or older. Those under 18 require a parent or guardian’s consent.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, May 12, approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for anyone 12 and older. The approval followed expansion of the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization earlier in the week.
Walk-up vaccinations are administered for free on a first-come, first-served basis at clinics that Baptist Health has set up across the state. Available dates and times vary by location. Baptist Health also accepts vaccine appointments at these locations.
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After a 20-year career with the U.S. Marine Corps, Kevin Barnes, a native of Bauxite who now lives in Jacksonville, returned to Arkansas to pursue a nursing career.
“I was involved in aviation, but health care was the secondary thing I was interested in when I was in the Marine Corps,” said Barnes, a senior nursing major at UA Little Rock. We didn’t have a medical unit in the Marine Corps. After 20 years, I decided I was going to do something in healthcare. My brother teaches nursing in New Mexico. I spoke with him about all the different opportunities, and I decided to go to nursing school.”
Amy Stamatis of Little Rock, Arkansas, was living a perfectly normal and content life, and there was nothing that was on the surface strange about her. She had a loving husband, a happy family life, a nice home, and she loved her job as a medflight nurse. There was no reason to suspect she had any problems, and to those who knew her she was completely normal. It was for this reason that neighbors, friends, and family would be shocked when one day in November of 2006, Amy went up to the second story of her house, sat on the window sill in a sort of trance, and jumped. The fall would crush her spine in several places to leave her permanently paralyzed from the waist down, and oddly it would be found that the nature of her injuries showed that she had in no way braced for the impact, as would be the normal instinct. As doctors struggled to try and do what they could, people were whispering about why she would have wanted to jump out the window and attempt suicide. Yet, Amy surprised eve
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Every blood donor who participates in an Arkansas Blood Institute drive this month will receive a T-shirt and an opportunity to win a $250 gift card.
The Arkansas Blood Institute will host a blood drive at Baptist Health Medical Center in Stuttgart on Friday, April 23, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Account Consultant for the Arkansas Blood Institute Kacie Kindrex said blood donations are urgently needed.
“We are asking any eligible donors to come out and donate if possible,” Kindrex said. “There are always some changes that seem to hamper our success in collecting. Recently, COVID-19 has been the issue.”
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