Jay Fulton has been a chaplain at UK HealthCare for eleven years, but COVID-19 has provided new challenges in supporting families.

Meg Pyper has significant ER experience, "but COVID is something entirely different." 

Alexandra Malone is a nurse practitioner for the Critical Care Team, and has felt a different stress between COVID surges.

Angela Henning works with transplant and ECMO patients. "One of the things I really want to get out, period, is that vaccination does help."

Kevin Hatton, M.D. emphasizes the severity of COVID for patients, stressing the importance of taking precautions.

Aaron Harris has been an ECMO specialist for more than eight years. "I would encourage people to get vaccinated, because it may help you, it may help people that you don't even know."

Kendall Pfister, RN knows the MICU is ready to continue the fight against COVID.

While the past 18 months have been hard work, Kim Croucher, RRT's team is doing what they can to help patients.

Samantha Gauthier, PharmD, is here to help people with every resource available, "and when it fails it is so disheartening."

Carissa Smith, RN, BSN, CCRN, says that "seeing people that [she's] cared for finally be taken off of ECMO feels like a big triumph."

Chelsea Kindel, a Kentucky Children's Hospital respiratory therapist, stays motivated to take care of patients and families. "These little kids, they need us."

Colleen Honey, RN, has worked in labor and delivery for about eight years. "We really try to help each other out when the days are difficult."

Hassan Yousaf, MD has been practicing medicine for six years, but COVID-19 has presented unique challenges. "I’ll be honest, I never anticipated this."

Chelsea Kindel, a Kentucky Children's Hospital respiratory therapist, stays motivated to take care of patients and families. "These little kids, they need us."

Kristina Oliver, RRT, is a respiratory therapist who works in several clinical areas. "All of us have grown together."

Corie Roberts, RN and Megan Perkins, RN have seen the differences between COVID-19 waves working in the MICU.

Melissa Thompson-Bastin, PharmD, PhD, is a clinical pharmacist in the MICU. "The vaccine is the only drug that works for COVID; it's the only drug that works."

Betsy Anderson, RN, a staff nurse in the Medicine ICU who has been with UK HealthCare for more than 20 years. "I am just physically and emotionally and spiritually just drained."

Mandy Brasher, MD, is a neonatal and perinatal fellow in the NICU. "I would recommend very strongly to get vaccinated and help protect your family in that way."

Alicia Chenail-Friend, PA-C and Gina Barber, APRN work in the UKHC NICU. "Just being pregnant increases your risk so much that you can't think that [COVID-19]'s not going to affect you."

Jenna Shanks, RN, has been a nurse in the KCH acute care department for more than three years. "I try to give it my all."