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Baptist Health Hardin CEO Rob Ramey says the recent 2,000-square-foot expansion of the Ring Road Diagnostic Imaging center is part of a $4 million effort to provide area patients with better options.

“We’ve now got four imaging centers where we have 3D mammography available for everybody,” Ramey said. “We’ve upgraded and we’re continuing to upgrade our MRIs and our CTs around the entire market. We’re adding additional x-ray capabilities. We’ve added at the hospital ion robotic imaging, bronchoscopy imaging.”

Baptist Health Hardin hosted an open house at the center on Friday. The open house was an opportunity to highlight some of the additional features the expansion made possible including a women’s center to provide more privacy, a new MRI machine that decreases time and increases patient comfort, and an additional CT scanner that will allow the center to process more than 5,000 additional CT scans a year.

“We know that we need that capacity for our community, for the growth we’re seeing, and with this new machine the images are better, the processing is faster, so it really hopefully will help streamline the processes for our patients and give them an even better experience as well,” Ramey said.

Ramey says the expansion will enhance a diagnostics team that is already a well-regarded one.

“We also understand that you all have a choice, that our community has a choice in where they go for care, and just the other day we were over here and we were celebrating with our staff because they were recognized as being in the top 8 percent nationally of all the diagnostic centers around the entire country,” Ramey said.

The Baptist Health Hardin Diagnostic Imaging center is open Mondays through Fridays.

The Hodgenville Police Department is teaming up with community partners for a sexual assault awareness event Monday evening.

Hodgenville Police Chief James Richardson says tonight’s event expands on the “sextortion” presentation the department gave to the public in late March.

“We’re going to give a presentation,” Richardson said. “It’s going to start at 6 p.m. at the Extension Office here in Larue County up on Old Elizabethtown Road, and what we will do is we’ll start out with basically what are the issues that we’re seeing here in our community and then we will talk about how HPD investigates those.”

Richardson said the event ties into April being Child Abuse Awareness Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The ultimate goal of the event is to share information and connect people with resources.

“If anybody wants to come, we encourage in-person, that way you can actually meet and see everybody,” Richardson said. “You’ll get to see some of the sexual assault investigators from the police department. You’ll get to ask questions. Any questions that we have from the community, they can email me questions. They can go on our Facebook page and message me questions that they want answered, and we’ll try to address those there in the presentation.”

The event will be recorded for anybody unable to attend in person.

Breckinridge County Schools is inviting the Irvington Elementary School community to provide feedback as the district looks to hire a new principal at the elementary school.

“We invite everyone that’s connected in some form or fashion to our district to participate in it,” said Breckinridge County Schools Superintendent Dr. Nick Carter. “You know, in the Irvington Community, Irvington Elementary School is a strong part of our community in Irvington, and we truly appreciate the input and feedback from everyone.”

That’s Breckinridge County Schools Superintendent Dr. Nick Carter.

Carter says the district has regularly used surveys to get feedback on the hiring process in order to best serve students, parents, faculty, and staff.

“This survey really is built around helping getting folks input on what’s going well, what they are feeling like is going well at the school, what are the areas that we need to focus on moving forward to take the school to the next level, and any other comments that they may have that will assist in selecting the next principal to school,” Carter said.

Carter says the district is looking for somebody with the same qualities the district looks for in all of its leadership positions

“Hard-working, 100 percent dedicated and committed to the success of all students and staff in the building, a strong focus on the academic needs of our children but also the social emotional needs of our children,” Carter said.

The survey is open until April 16 and is posted on the Breckinridge County Schools Facebook page and website. Responses can be made anonymously.