Elsah photo contest sets closing reception
July 16, 2021
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ELSAH The Village of Elsah Museum will celebrate its annual photography exhibit with a closing reception 1-4 p.m. Saturday, July 31, in the Green Tree Inn’s gazebo north of the museum.
Remarks and recognitions will take place 1:30-2 at 26 LaSalle St., Elsah. If rain is forecast, the event will include “take away” refreshments.
The annual exhibit celebrates and fosters an appreciation of the village. This year’s exhibit was carried over from last year with the theme of “My Favorite Window.”
This year’s judge Erica Popp, an artist and college instructor commented on the high quality of the submitted images. In addition to purchase prizes, there were eight special recognition photographs. Historic Elsah Foundation featured six historic window photographs from the exhibit on its webpage, escapetoelsah.com.
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Lis Jones is a Calloway County resident and hospice nurse who started providing meals for her fellow healthcare workers after learning of the nursing shortage that is affecting the Murray-Calloway County Hospital’s (MCCH) critical care unit (CCU). Although Jones is a nurse, she said she is not credentialed to work on a CCU unit, and her inability to help was upsetting.
“It was a feeling of guilt that I wasn t over there working as a staff nurse on the floor. The few times that I ve had to wear PPE [personal protective equipment] and treat patients, I have found it extremely limiting and frustrating and hot and uncomfortable and scary,” Jones said. “My friends were facing terrible things.”
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On Tuesday, Feb. 2, President Bob Jackson and a panel of distinguished medical, governmental and historical officials talked to the Murray State community about the latest COVID-19 updates and the vaccine at the first virtual Town & Gown President’s Breakfast of 2021.
Panelists included Chief Medical Officer Bob Hughes, CEO of Murray Calloway County Hospital Jerry Penner, Executive Advisor at the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Mark Carter, Mayor Bob Rogers and history professor James Humphries.
In the forum, Carter said as of Monday, Feb. 1, a total of 362,271 people have been vaccinated in Kentucky with 86 percent of the first doses received administered. Carter said they were approaching Gov. Andy Beshear’s goal of having 90 percent of the doses received into arms within seven days.
Credit Murray-Calloway County Chamber of Commerce Facebook Livestream
The Murray Calloway County Chamber of Commerce annual chamber breakfast went virtual this year and included a look back on how Murray-Calloway County Hospital and the community have been impacted by COVID-19. Murray-Calloway County Hospital CEO Jerry Penner addressed the group of local business leaders and gave a timeline of how the virus affected hospital operations. He also gave vaccine information and an outline of how they will be distributed in the community over the next year.
Penner said the hospital began making preparations in early spring, including installing UV Air Scrubbing in the HVAC system and creating a “negative pressure” floor which would become the COVID ward. He said the hospital saw a lot of nursing staff leave during the beginning of the pandemic; these were nurses considered high risk for COVID and the threat of the virus coaxed them into early retirement. Penner said this problem w
MURRAY â The Murray-Calloway County Public Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees Wednesday afternoon voted unanimously to begin exploring the possibility of selling the Spring Creek Health Care and Skilled Nursing Center that Murray-Calloway County Hospital has owned for about the past 20 years.Â
This came following an executive session that was part of the boardâs regular monthly meeting. Since the matter involved real estate, the executive session fell under Kentucky Revised Statute provisions necessary for the discussions to be conducted in a private setting.
Hospital CEO Jerry Penner said there have been several such sessions among board members in the past year about this issue. However, he also said discussions about this possibility were happening for the past few years.Â