by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
“I’m not gonna lie,” Justin Bird said. “There have been plenty of nights when I’m laying in bed at night while I’m on duty at the station thinking ‘I’ve got the greatest job in the world.’” Justin is an engineer for the Bedford County fire department, but not all days...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
‘Am I completely gowned up? Do I have everything on correctly?’ Jarylin Bishop thought as she stood in front of the doorway to the patient’s room. On the other side of the door was her first COVID-positive patient. She started her job just a few weeks before and was...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
Cathy Purcell is a certified nursing assistant, or CNA, in Shelbyville. She lives in Unionville, just a quick 17-minute drive up the road from the hospital. She lives on the same road as her mother, step-dad, aunt, uncle, and daughter—a place she has called home her...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
If you get the pleasure of walking by Rich- ard “Ricky” Donovan in the hallway of the hospital, he will speak to you. A simple hello, at the least, can brighten anyone’s day. Ricky is an environmental service worker for the Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital. He makes sure...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
“I heard a bad quote in mid-April of last year from a healthcare provider. It was not someone I knew directly,” Dr. Austin Mackens said. The bad quote he heard was “I did not sign up for this.” “My first thought was “No, this is what you signed up for. We signed up to...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
January 1, 2021, was the first day in more than 250 days that Donya Neal got to take a day off as an Infection Control Practitioner at the Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital. Since mid-April 2020, she had worked seven days a week for more than eight months straight. Donya’s...
