Lourdes welcomes Jennifer Pierce to the position of Program Director for Lourdes Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Medicine. Jennifer graduated from Southern Illinois University. She comes to Lourdes with 19 years of management experience. Lourdes Wound Care Center provides specialized treatment for chronic or non-healing wounds that have not significantly improved during the course of…
Lourdes nurses earn navigator accreditation
Lourdes Women’s Center nurses Courtney Leneave and Amy Manley recently attained accreditation as Certified Breast Patient Navigators in Imaging & Cancer (CBPN-IC) from The National Consortium of Breast Centers. They were recognized at the 23rd Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference in Las Vegas in March. Lourdes Women’s Center offers nurse navigators to its patients,…
Kentucky House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins visited Lourdes
Kentucky House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins visited Lourdes on Thursday, July 12, to discuss several issues including Medicaid Managed Care and the draft Pain Management regulations going into effect soon. Lourdes associates expressed concern about the across-the-board cuts in reimbursement from most payors and the effect that this new reality will have on access for…
Lourdes opens hybrid operating rooms
Lourdes held a dedication, blessing and open house for the Montgomery Cardiac Hybrid Operating Room and the Endovascular Hybrid Operating Room on Sunday, May 6. Lourdes is proud to be the only facility in Kentucky with both cardiac and endovascular hybrid operating rooms.
Mercy Medical Associates welcomes Terri H. Telle, M.D.
Mercy Medical Associates, Lourdes’ employed physician practice, is pleased to welcome Dr. Terri H. Telle to the medical staff. Dr. Telle joins Mercy Medical Associates from her former practice, Family Medicine Associates of Western Kentucky in Reidland. Her phone number and office location will remain the same at 6035 Kentucky Dam Road, Paducah, KY 42003. …
Lourdes pharmacists providing clinical rounding at bedside
Making sure patients and their primary caregivers are ready for the return home is critical in the recovery process. Lourdes has partnered with the inpatient pharmacy to expand its multi-disciplinary care at the bedside. Adding a pharmacist to the team helps ensure patients and their families are receiving education regarding the importance of compliance with…