Release Date: 09/13/2024 MADISONVILLE, KY – The Merle M. Mahr Cancer Center at Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville was presented with a $7,000 donation following First United Bank’s annual Cookin’ for the Cure fundraiser.

Release Date: 08/27/2024 WHAS Crusade for Children has awarded a $12,000 grant to the Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Foundation to benefit Pediatric Therapy and Mother Baby Care. 

Release Date: 05/29/2024 MADISONVILLE, KY — The Rog Badgett All-Inclusive Pediatric Play Park has undergone its first major improvements since the park opened in June of 2019.  With the installation of new sunshade canopies, families and pediatric therapy patients at Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville will now be able to comfortably utilize the park all summer long.

Release Date: 11/18/2022 Local students from Madisonville North Hopkins High School collected money to support five mammograms for patients with a financial barrier to care seeking services at Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville’s Merle M. Mahr Cancer Center.
 

Release Date: 11/18/2022 Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Foundation has been awarded a grant from the Community Foundation of West Kentucky to purchase two new pieces of equipment for the Mother Baby unit.

Release Date: 11/02/2022

Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Foundation has been awarded a gift from Madisonville Rotary Club to support the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Baptist Health Deaconess.

Release Date: 01/17/2022 Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Foundation is partnering with Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Ohio Valley and local McDonald’s franchises to enhance hospitality for hospital patients and their loved ones. 

Release Date: 01/06/2022 The WHAS Crusade for Children Grant will provide $10,000 to fund the purchase of pediatric therapy care equipment; and the NICU Support Grant, awarded in the amount of $1,000 by the Little Giraffe Foundation, will help to improve the experience of having a child in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Release Date: 03/09/2021

The LiteGait is a gait training device that simultaneously controls weight bearing, posture, and balance over a treadmill or over ground.  The unique harness allows unilateral or bilateral support while allowing progression of weight bearing so gait training can begin earlier in the rehabilitation process.  It suspends the patient and allows the clinician to manually assist lower extremities and pelvis to achieve proper gait patterns.

Release Date: 03/03/2021

Austin Elliott has been named the Director of Philanthropy for the Baptist Health Madisonville Foundation. 

“I am thrilled to join the team at Baptist Health Madisonville and excited to not only increase the awareness of the phenomenal services provided here, but also offer a way for our community to support growth and innovation through the power of philanthropy,” Elliott said.