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- Bluegrass Family Health Changes Name To Baptist Health Plan
Bluegrass Family Health, the insurance arm of Baptist Health, is changing its name to Baptist Health Plan. This change will make the Lexington-based health insurance carrier, which has offered insurance through area employers for more than 20 years, be...
- Baptist Health Buys Trover Health In Western Kentucky, Making Baptist Kentucky's Largest Health-care Provider By Licensed Beds
Following the nationwide trend of large hospitals taking over smaller ones in light of health care reform demands in a slow economy, Louisville-based Baptist Health added an eighth hospital to its statewide network this week by acquiring Trover Health...
- State's Hospitals See Impressive Growth Spurt From Nearly $1 Billion In Capital Investment
Kentucky?s major hospital systems are going big, making high-profile, technology-forward capital investments across the commonwealth. Josh Shepherd of The Lane Report writes that every sector of the state is part of the hospital boom. The state's...
- Hospitals Merging To Shore Up Finances And, As Federal Health-reform Law Encourages, Improve Patient Outcomes
With one expert calling it "merger mania," Robert Hadley of The Lane Report looks at how Kentucky hospitals and hospital systems are banding together as they brace for reimbursement changes mandated in the new health care law. The most discussed merger...
- Uk Loses Branding For High-quality Nursing Care
The University of Kentucky hospital has lost magnet status, a designation given to facilities that offer high-quality nursing care, the Lexington Herald-Leader's Mary Meehan reports. The recent review says UK, which advertised the designation by...
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$230 million expansion at Baptist Health Lexington to provide private patient rooms and updated spaces throughout
Baptist Health Lexington, formerly Central Baptist Hospital, is undergoing a $230 million expansion that will make it better, not necessarily bigger, Dan Dickson reports for Business Lexington.
The expansion will not add beds to the hospital, which now has 383, but will update the space with the individual patient in mind, Dickson reports. ?Everyone wants a private room when they don?t feel well,? hospital spokeswoman Ruth Ann Childers told Dickson.
The expansion of the Nicholasville Road campus began in the fall of 2010 and is expected to be completed late in 2015. It will include a seven-story, 200-bed hospital tower, a redesigned hospital entrance, a fourth underground parking garage, wider hallways with additional natural lighting, and an already completed cafeteria.
Baptist Health is based in Louisville and owns acute-care hospitals in Lexington, Louisville, Corbin, La Grange, Madisonville, Paducah and Richmond, and a long-term, acute-care hospital in Corbin. The system manages hospitals in Elizabethtown and Russell Springs.
The expansion of the Nicholasville Road campus began in the fall of 2010 and is expected to be completed late in 2015. It will include a seven-story, 200-bed hospital tower, a redesigned hospital entrance, a fourth underground parking garage, wider hallways with additional natural lighting, and an already completed cafeteria.
Baptist Health is based in Louisville and owns acute-care hospitals in Lexington, Louisville, Corbin, La Grange, Madisonville, Paducah and Richmond, and a long-term, acute-care hospital in Corbin. The system manages hospitals in Elizabethtown and Russell Springs.
- Bluegrass Family Health Changes Name To Baptist Health Plan
Bluegrass Family Health, the insurance arm of Baptist Health, is changing its name to Baptist Health Plan. This change will make the Lexington-based health insurance carrier, which has offered insurance through area employers for more than 20 years, be...
- Baptist Health Buys Trover Health In Western Kentucky, Making Baptist Kentucky's Largest Health-care Provider By Licensed Beds
Following the nationwide trend of large hospitals taking over smaller ones in light of health care reform demands in a slow economy, Louisville-based Baptist Health added an eighth hospital to its statewide network this week by acquiring Trover Health...
- State's Hospitals See Impressive Growth Spurt From Nearly $1 Billion In Capital Investment
Kentucky?s major hospital systems are going big, making high-profile, technology-forward capital investments across the commonwealth. Josh Shepherd of The Lane Report writes that every sector of the state is part of the hospital boom. The state's...
- Hospitals Merging To Shore Up Finances And, As Federal Health-reform Law Encourages, Improve Patient Outcomes
With one expert calling it "merger mania," Robert Hadley of The Lane Report looks at how Kentucky hospitals and hospital systems are banding together as they brace for reimbursement changes mandated in the new health care law. The most discussed merger...
- Uk Loses Branding For High-quality Nursing Care
The University of Kentucky hospital has lost magnet status, a designation given to facilities that offer high-quality nursing care, the Lexington Herald-Leader's Mary Meehan reports. The recent review says UK, which advertised the designation by...