I don t want anyone to go through what I had to go through | First Shelby County COVID-19 case among first Baptist Memphis COVID vaccine recipients
Memphis hospital vaccinations Thursday followed COVID-19 vaccinations at Baptist system hospitals earlier this week in Arkansas and Mississippi. Author: Brad Broders Updated: 6:13 PM CST December 17, 2020
MEMPHIS, Tennessee The infection being in my lungs, it was one of the worst experiences of my life, Marilyn Davis said.
That s why Davis rolled up her sleeve Thursday afternoon for a COVID-19 vaccination.
In March, the Baptist Memphis cardiac monitor technician spent a week at her workplace as a patient as Shelby County s first confirmed COVID-19 case.
Memphis hospitals begin vaccinating frontline health care workers
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare begins COVID-19 vaccinations By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 17, 2020 at 11:40 AM CST - Updated December 17 at 3:20 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis hospitals are wasting no time getting staff vaccinated. The COVID-19 vaccines started to arrive at hospitals in the Bluff City Thursday morning.
Around 9 am, doctors, nurses and other staff who qualify got their first rounds of the Pfizer vaccine at Methodist Germantown.
Baptist and the Memphis VA hospital also started administering vaccines.
The Memphis VA is one of the first 37 VA sites across the country to receive the vaccine.
Doctors, nurses at NEA Baptist in Jonesboro, AR express relief, gratitude after getting vaccinated. Author: Brad Broders Updated: 6:06 PM CST December 14, 2020
JONESBORO, Ark. It s just hard to see these people dying and having people not believe this is a real thing, NEA Baptist Hospital Brielle Rowlan said.
For Nowlan, after nine months of exhaustive care and nearly daily tragedy, the vaccine injection meant the world. It really reassures me that I can see my family more, Nowlan said.
On a historic Monday afternoon, Rowlan and about a dozen of her NEA Baptist hospital coworkers who treat COVID-19 patients were first in the Mid-South to receive the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose.
Most of our hospitals are pretty full but we are not closed ever and patients can always come into our emergency department or come in via ambulance, said Stacy Hammett, Baptist Telehealth Advisor.
Hammett said the emergency rooms remains open . You may have to wait a while to be seen and if you need to be admitted, with hospitals nearing capacity you may have to wait to get a room but Hammett says you will get help if you go to the hospital.
Hammett said she don t know where this list came from or when it was created but pointed out closed for admissions is not a term those in the healthcare industry use in an official capacity.