In the last month, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle has hired a new ambulance director, a new director or respiratory care and a new nurse manager, according to a press release from the hospital.
Chris Bourland is the hospital’s new ambulance director now that former director Edwin Mitchell has taken a similar position in Grenada. Bourland is originally from Aberdeen and received paramedic training at the Alabama Fire College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1997. He became a registered paramedic in 1998. He has worked with East Mississippi Community College where he helped instruct paramedic refresher courses. He comes to Baptist Golden Triangle from the North Mississippi Medical Center Ambulance Service in West Point where he has been supervisor since 2006.
Interim director of respiratory therapy Leslie Albright was selected to fill the director position after former director Debbie Hughes entered the ministry full time in May. Employed at Baptist Golden Triangle since August 2011, Albright is a graduate of the respiratory therapy program at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama. She is also a member of the National Board for Respiratory Care.
Brandy Ray Bryant, RN, has been recently named nurse manager of 4PT and Transitional Care Unit after Bridgett Alexander was named director of inpatient nursing. She is originally from Madison, and attended Holmes Community College and received an associate’s degree in nursing from Mississippi University for Women. She previously worked as a charge nurse, head nurse and a super user for the hospital’s 2014 conversion to Baptist One Care, the hospital’s new electric medical record system.
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