Baptist Hospital East, a 407-bed acute care hospital in the heart of St. Matthews, is a leading healthcare provider in the Louisville area. With a workforce of more than 3,100, it is one of Louisville’s Top 10 employers.

Accredited by The Joint Commission, Baptist East has garnered a number of awards, including -- for the last four years -- Top 100 Hospitals as chosen by Solucient® and Top 25 of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky. In fact, Baptist East ranked third in the state overall in Best Places to Work in 2006 and was the top hospital listed.

Other awards include: Best of Louisville™ Award, Best Hospital; Readers' Choice Award, LEO; two-time winner of a Business/Family Partnership Designation; two-time winner of a Work/Life Balance award from Greater Louisville Inc.; Top 100 Orthopedic Hospitals; 100 Top Hospitals™: Orthopedic Benchmarks for Success, among 60 top-performing hospitals nationally for hip replacement procedures and one of the best of its size in a four-state region and the Katherine G. Peden Award for Corporate Excellence.

It is among the top five hospitals in the state for total joint replacement surgery, maternity care, neurosciences and emergency services.

Baptist East has earned a strong reputation in cardiology, rehabilitation, cancer and women's health services.

The hospital has 1,192 physicians on the medical staff, representing a wide range of medical specialties and interests.

Founded in 1975, Baptist East is a member of Baptist HealthCare System, one of Kentucky's largest not-for-profit healthcare providers, with hospitals in Lexington, La Grange, Paducah, Corbin and Elizabethtown.

Services

Along with general medical and surgical services, Baptist East offers a variety of programs to meet the community's healthcare needs:

• Baptist East Diagnostic Imaging Center
• Baptist Urgent Care
• Baptist Medical Associates
• Center for Cancer Care with radiation center featuring IMRT and IGRT plus stereotactic radiosurgery.
• Cancer Resource Center offering information to those diagnosed with cancer, along with cancer prevention information
• Center for Behavioral Health®, providing help for emotional, drug and alcohol problems
• Cardiac Care Center featuring all private rooms for open heart surgery patients with adjoining recovery unit -- all conveniently located on the same floor as Surgery.
• Emergency services, including Trager Pediatric Emergency Care, and Chest Pain Services.
• Heart Services encompassing comprehensive diagnostic services, open heart surgery and cardiac rehabilitation
• Home Health agency serving seven counties
• Orthopaedic Unit
• Neurosciences Unit
• Palliative Care
• Rehabilitation Program
• Sleep Disorders Center
• Women's Health, featuring our maternity program, all private mother/baby rooms, care for breast and gynecological problems and 4-D ultrasound.
• Women's Imaging Center, complete with Breast Care Center offering digital mammography, same-day results for diagnostic mammograms, a resource for questions and the first FDA-approved, computer-aided detection system.

Baptist Hospital East
4000 Kresge Way, Louisville, KY 40207
(502) 897-8100
www.baptisteast.com

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