Baptist Health is a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky. It consists of ten hospitals, along with affiliated physician groups, urgent care centers and freestanding emergency departments, therapy and rehabilitation clinics, and various other health-related service centers. The system traces its roots to Kentucky Baptist Hospital, the first Baptist hospital in Kentucky, which opened in 1924 at Barrett Avenue and DeBarr Street, near Breckinridge Street in Louisville.
The ten hospitals are located in Louisville, Lexington, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Corbin, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana, for a total of more than 2,300 licensed beds. An additional hospital is operated in partnership with Deaconess Health System in Madisonville.
Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. The current chief executive officer is Gerard Colman.
Hospital locations The following is a list of Baptist Health hospitals (in Kentucky, unless otherwise indicated):
HospitalCountyCity Staffed bedsAmerican Hospital Directory for Kentucky Retrieved 9 Apr 2024American Hospital Directory for Indiana Retrieved 9 Apr 2024FoundedBaptist Health CorbinWhitleyCorbin 221 1986Baptist Health Deaconess MadisonvilleHopkinsMadisonville 159 Baptist Health La GrangeOldhamLa Grange 42 1987Baptist Health LexingtonFayetteLexington 434 1954Baptist Health LouisvilleJeffersonLouisville 486 1924Baptist Health PaducahMcCrackenPaducah 176 1953Baptist Health RichmondMadisonRichmond 50 Baptist Health HardinHardinElizabethtown 262 Baptist Health FloydFloydNew Albany, Indiana 248 1953
Additionally, in May 2022 Baptist Health announced plans for a new hospital in Crestwood, in Oldham County, to be built in coordination with the New Urbanist planned community Clore Station. While no timeline for hospital construction has been announced, construction at Clore Station is expected to begin in 2026.
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