Marigold Catering brings Kentucky comfort to Baptist Health
Many local hospitals ran on empty during the pandemic.
And although many are now finally seeing the light, those same nurses, doctors and cleaning staff are still fighting the pandemic.
At the start of the COVID outbreak, WAVE 3 News shared nonstop stories about companies and local businesses giving back to hospitals. More than a year later, with normalcy in sight, that effort hasn’t stopped.
Baptist Health charge nurse Katie Embry was with COVID patients during their pain and last breaths.
”I work on a palliative care unit,” Embry said. “So it has affected families in their time of loss, and we’ve become people’s family.”
At the peak of the pandemic, Embry said she treated hundreds of patients. The case numbers are going down, but Embry said it feels like every day she still sees and treats COVID.
”We are so incredibly busy providing care, loving on them, supporting them,” Embry said. “We don’t get a chance to eat sometimes.”
To make sure Embry and the other health heroes at Baptist Health do eat, the husband-and-wife duo behind Marigold Catering put their aprons on. Owner Adrienne Cole said they needed something to move them to 2021 after their events came to a halt. That opportunity came with a partnership with Ford Motor Company.