LOUISVILLE, KY – The Kentucky National Guard once again, helps the community selflessly. With sometimes 12-hour long shifts, hundreds of men and women are helping out in hospitals across Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Baptist Health vaccine and testing site on Kresge Way is often too busy to take all patients in need.<\/p>\n

Their responsibilities don’t stop anywhere for the guard members, as they are helping from housekeeping to cafeteria work to help the staff in need.<\/p>\n

In Louisville, 60 guard members are split between Baptist and UofL Health with a focus on their testing sites.\u00a0 With over 30% positivity rate, things at UofL Health’s downtown site have been swamped.<\/p>\n

In only one month, they moved from 200 to 600 tests daily.<\/p>\n

“Whether it is entering orders, putting kits together, calling patients with results they are a part of it. We could not have done it without them,” nurse practitioner Kelly Cooper, who runs UofL’s site, said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

They will remain dedicated to helping, until the end.<\/p>\n

“When you can make a difference at home, it’s a great feeling,” Major Richard Hessick said.<\/p>\n

As the surge continues, Gov. Andy Beshear has said Kentucky will continue to rely heavily on National Guard members and nursing students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE, KY – The Kentucky National Guard once again, helps the community selflessly. With sometimes 12-hour long shifts,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"yoast_head":"\n