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Every March, healthcare professionals recognize Patient Safety Awareness Week as a time to reflect on one of the premier tenets of healthcare — “to do no harm.”
Continue readingPulaski Memorial Hospital opened its new community pharmacy to the public last week.
Continue readingPulaski Memorial Hospital is celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year and the celebration of that milestone continues today with a special health event.
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The Pulaski Memorial Hospital has announced they will be having a weekly Senior Care Walk in the Park starting this week.
Continue readingThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued new guidance for healthcare facilities across the country about masking requirements for COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
Continue readingOfficials at Pulaski Memorial Hospital encourage residents to complete a survey to help the hospital in its strategic planning for the next several years.
Continue readingAfter receiving input from the COVID-19 Pandemic Medical Task Force, officials at Pulaski Memorial Hospital amended the visitor restrictions.
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The Pulaski County Public Library and Pulaski Memorial Hospital are working together to offer COVID-19 vaccination clinics to the residents of Pulaski County.
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Officials from the Pulaski County Public Library recently announced that the library was the recipient of a Communities for Immunity Round 2 award in support of work to promote vaccine confidence in Pulaski County.
Continue readingThe Pulaski Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees voted to close the hospital’s OB department in an emergency meeting December 14. This means the hospital will no longer offer maternity services beginning in mid-January 2022, according to a hospital press release.
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Pulaski County’s COVID-19 situation is getting bad, according to Terri Hansen with the Pulaski County Health Department. “Things are actually really getting out of hand, I guess, to say right now,” Hansen told the county commissioners Tuesday. “As of today, we’ve had 1,466 cases in the county. We are currently at a metric of 2.5. We’re in the orange, and we are this close to going in the red.”
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A COVID-19 update is expected during tonight’s Pulaski County Commissioners meeting. Terri Hansen with the Pulaski County Health Department and Brian Ledley with Pulaski Memorial Hospital are scheduled to give updates and discuss the county’s COVID money.
Continue readingPulaski Memorial Hospital is tightening its visitor restrictions, amid what it calls a “rapid increase of cases and hospitalizations from the Delta variant.”
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Eastern Pulaski students will be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine at school starting next week.
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Pulaski County’s health care providers are pleading with residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter to the community this week, Pulaski Memorial Hospital providers said, “Further disease and death are entirely preventable, but because of disinformation, people continue to die of COVID-19.”
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The Pulaski County health officer is encouraging the use of masks in schools. Nathan Origer gave an update on behalf of Dr. Rex Allman and the incident management team during Monday’s county commissioners meeting.
Continue readingPulaski Memorial Hospital continues to ease its visitor restrictions. Those under 18 may once again visit patients, as long as they’re with an adult.
Continue readingThe COVID-19 vaccine is proving to be effective in Pulaski County. Of the roughly 4,100 Pulaski County residents fully vaccinated, fewer than five of them subsequently tested positive, according to Nathan Origer with the county’s incident management team.
Continue readingPulaski Memorial Hospital will soon be getting a new CEO. Tom Barry is retiring at the end of the year, according to a hospital press release. He’s served as the hospital’s chief executive since 2013.
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