Baptist Health is a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky. It consists of eight 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 eight 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):

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* Hospitals in Louisville, Kentucky Healthcare in Kentucky Medical and health organizations based in Kentucky Companies based in Louisville, Kentucky Baptist hospitals networks in the United States {{Kentucky-hospital-stub