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  • MBTS grad assists in NYC COVID-19 hotspot hospital
    by John L. Inman III, posted Monday, June 22, 2020 (one year ago)

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    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- Just a few months ago, Daniel Pentimone looked forward to May 2020 when he would celebrate the completion of his Master of Divinity degree from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with family and friends, just like any other graduate. Instead, he spent May 1 at a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital emergency room battling the COVID-19 pandemic and ministering to patients and medical staff.

    Pentimone earned a nursing degree from Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City in 2012 and began working at Belton (Mo.) Regional Medical Center as an emergency room nurse. His love for the stories of medical missionaries like David Livingstone and Hudson Taylor inspired him to enter the nursing field. Read More

  • Georgia student pastor works with Maryland COVID-19 patients
    by Scott Barkley/Christian Index, posted Wednesday, May 27, 2020 (one year ago)

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    LAUREL, Md. (BP) -- It's a Wednesday like many others of late. Chris Codding logs onto Zoom and chats with teens he leads as a volunteer student pastor at Cassville Baptist Church. He brings a devotional. They talk about what they've been doing and share prayer requests.

    After leaving the meeting just before 7 p.m., Codding gets ready for the next part of his evening. Surrounded by old X-ray copies in an otherwise empty storage room at Laurel Medical Center, he puts on the N95 mask that had been hanging around his neck. He secures his surgical gown and puts on a pair of gloves, then another pair on top of those. A second surgical mask goes over his N95 so he doesn't have to change it so often. A cap goes over his hair. Then comes a pair of goggles, followed by a face shield. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Don't waste your medical crisis
    by Karen Allen, posted Friday, April 17, 2020 (one year ago)

    Karen Allen relays the story of how almost dying a year ago has changed her life. "I can personally attest that God is good," she says. "When you or a loved one encounters a medical crisis, you can know this too. Don't waste your medical crisis." Read More

  • New Orleans ICU nurse in quarantine with COVID-19 shares Gospel hope
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, April 09, 2020 (one year ago)

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    KENNER, La. (BP) -- Lexie Green was still a few months shy of her two-year anniversary as a nurse at Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner, La., just outside of New Orleans, when she found herself serving in the intensive care unit in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    A few weeks into the crisis, which has struck the New Orleans area particularly hard, Green started feeling ill herself. When she discovered she was running a fever, her supervisor sent her home. She later tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Read More

  • SBC ethicists applaud guide to protect disabled, elderly
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, April 02, 2020 (one year ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Southern Baptist ethicists Russell Moore and C. Ben Mitchell expressed gratitude at the federal government's warning against unlawful discrimination in care for the disabled and other vulnerable patients during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

    A division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a bulletin March 28 to remind entities covered by civil rights laws of their responsibility to abide by federal bans on discrimination on the basis of disability, age and other categories during the current health crisis. Read More

  • Chocolate factory now making medical face shields
    by Erin Roach/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Monday, March 30, 2020 (one year ago)

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    MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (BP) -- A chocolate factory owned by a couple of Southern Baptists is among the factories that have converted to make medical face shields to supply hospitals with personal protective equipment needed in the COVID-19 fight.

    Michael and Angie Moss own Sweet Shop USA, the largest handmade chocolate manufacturer in the country, in Mount Pleasant, Texas. The company was founded in Fort Worth nearly 50 years ago before relocating to northeast Texas, and they supply thousands of retailers nationwide, including Nordstrom. Read More

  • HHS rule protecting conscience rights lauded
    by Tom Strode, posted Monday, May 06, 2019 (2 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Religious liberty and pro-life advocates have commended the Trump administration's new rule protecting freedom of conscience for health care providers.

    The final rule -- issued May 2 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) -- provides for the enforcement of 25 federal laws protecting conscience rights that were not enforced by the Obama administration. Read More