2024, A Year in Review
Baptist Health Hamburg
3000 Baptist Health Blvd., Lexington KY 40509
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Baptist Health Hamburg is the largest and most ambitious healthcare project in central and eastern Kentucky in the past 25 years. The $253-million outpatient medical center was designed with a focus on convenient patient care with an Outpatient Surgery Center, Emergency Department, Cancer Center, and multistory physician office complex offering specialty and primary care.
Expansion along the northeastern I-75 and I-64 corridors has connected a growing population spreading outside Lexington with Baptist Health's services. A large part of this strategy has involved offering specialty care in local areas and increasing access to primary care providers.
Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital
11800 Bluegrass Parkway, Louisville KY 40299
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Baptist Health and Encompass Health opened a new inpatient rehabilitation hospital in June 2024. The 40-bed hospital adds to Baptist Health's expanding footprint in Jeffersontown, a community just east of downtown Louisville.
The hospital provides extensive rehabilitative services, including intensive therapy, 24-hour nursing care, and frequent physician visits. These services are designed to help patients recover from strokes, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputations, and complex orthopedic conditions while regaining function and independence.
Baptist Health La Grange: Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit
1006 New Moody Lane, Studio 201, La Grange, KY 40031
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Baptist Health La Grange opened a new Inpatient Behavioral Health unit in July 2024 to complement the hospital’s comprehensive outpatient support services. The unit includes 11 all-private rooms, a secure outdoor area, and dedicated spaces for specialized therapy, designed from the ground up as a healing environment.
The nearly $10 million project expanded access to mental health services by creating the only publicly available inpatient behavioral health beds in Oldham, Henry, Trimble, Carroll or Shelby counties along with critically needed outpatient resources.
Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care
7700 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40291
Baptist Health and project partner Intuitive Health will open the system’s third free-standing emergency department and urgent care center in 2025. The 11,000-square-foot facility will be at 7700 Bardstown Road, near the Gene Snyder Freeway (I-265) in the Glenmary area of Louisville.
The facility will join two other Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care centers — one in the Jefferson Ridge area of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and another at Blankenbaker Crossings in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.
The combined full-service ER and urgent care center simplifies how patients access walk-in care for urgent or emergent conditions. A physician or advanced practice provider examines each patient, and the patient is billed for the level of care they receive. If a patient needs to be transferred to Baptist Health Louisville for admission or surgery, transport arrangements are made.
Baptist Health Hardin Medical Pavilion
200 Cardinal Drive, Elizabethtown KY 42701
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Baptist Health Hardin opened a new $225.6 million medical pavilion in 2024. The 282,000-square-foot facility was designed so patients can manage multiple healthcare needs in one convenient location.
The new pavilion is home to cancer care, cardiology, pulmonary care, general surgery, urology, vascular care, wound care and diagnostic services. It houses a comprehensive cancer center; 12 new surgical suites, including a hybrid operating room; three new cardiac cath labs; multidisciplinary outpatient clinics, and patient-centered spaces designed to promote emotional and spiritual wellness.
Situated directly behind Baptist Health Hardin, the pavilion is the size equivalent of 75% of the existing hospital.
Baptist Health Hardin is a 300-bed acute care hospital that serves 400,000 residents in a 10-county region of central Kentucky. The new facility will help Baptist Health meet the needs of a region that has grown significantly in recent years and anticipates additional population growth in the future.
Baptist Health Floyd: Cardiovascular Unit, Operating Room Expansion
1850 State St, New Albany, IN 47150
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Baptist Health Floyd opened a new cardiovascular unit in June 2024, creating 32 new rooms with universal beds to keep patient care centrally located. The unit also includes a cardiac catheterization lab, eliminating the need to transfer patients to different units within the hospital.
Also in 2024, the hospital opened seven new ultramodern operating rooms, creating a total of 10 ORs, in addition to a hybrid OR and two cardiovascular ORs.
These new spaces will support the growth of the hospital’s robust robotics program. During fiscal year 2024, Baptist Health Floyd surgeons performed 1,107 daVinci robot surgeries (for general surgeries), 129 Globus spine surgeries, and 177 robotic total joint replacements. In total, Baptist Health Floyd performs an average of 12,000 surgeries each year.