South Peninsula Hospital

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly introduced several ordinances and carried out multiple commendations at its meeting Tuesday.

Purchases for South Peninsula Hospital go through while energy improvement plan stalls at Tuesday night's Kenai Peninsula borough assembly meeting.

The fifth annual event is a collaboration between local non-profits and concerned citizens, and happens in conjunction with the Kenai Peninsula Project Homeless Connect which holds similar events in Soldotna and Seward.

South Peninsula Hospital launched a pilot training program Monday to combat a shortage of certified nursing assistants on the lower Kenai Peninsula.

South Peninsula Hospital is closing its COVID-19 testing site Friday after nearly three years of providing services in Homer.

Homer’s first baby of 2023 was born Wednesday night at South Peninsula Hospital. Tenaya Boone and Fractal Mic welcomed their first daughter, Michaya Boone just after 8 p.m. — more than two weeks early.

South Peninsula Hospital’s specialty clinic on Bartlett street has run out of Moderna Bivalent booster doses, according to Derotha Ferraro, director of public relations for the hospital. Last week, the SPH COVID clinic received a shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Bivalent vaccines, but due to high local demand, all 300 of the Moderna doses have run out.

South Peninsula Hospital’s COVID-19 Test and Vaccine Clinic is offering free COVID-19 Bivalent booster shots by appointment.These mRNA boosters contain vaccines against the original strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, and the newest Omicron BA.5 variant.Anyone over 12 years of age is eligible for the new booster, as long as they’ve completed the primary vaccine series and it’s been more than two months since their last shot.

COVID-19 numbers continue to climb across the lower Kenai Peninsula, according to local public health officials.South Peninsula Hospital’s Derotha Ferraro and Public Health Nurse Lorne Carroll discussed the increase on KBBI’s COVID Brief Thursday.

This week, Jenny Carroll, Information Officer for the City of Homer, has the details on vaccinations administered every Thursday in June from 3 to 7 p.m.…