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The nonprofit formerly known as Baptist Healthcare System Inc. is moving closer to becoming the largest health care organization in Kentucky, with last week's acquisition of the Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center in Richmond, reports Ed Green of Business First. No money changed hands, notes Green, since Baptist Healthcare assumed ownership of the nonprofit medical center.
The company also announced a system-wide rebranding effort designed to bring all of its facilities under a new brand name: Baptist Health. The goal, said Andy Sears, vice president of planning and system development for the nonprofit organization, is to broaden its reach across the state. System-wide, Baptist Health has more than 1,900 licensed acute-care beds and served 93,892 inpatients and 1.8 million outpatients in 2011.
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- 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...
- Hospitals Merging To Shore Up Finances And, As Federal Health-reform Law Encourages, Improve Patient Outcomes
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- Oldham Faith-based Clinic To Reopen Under Oversight Of Nonprofit
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Baptist Health, formerly Baptist Healthcare System Inc., acquires Richmond hospital; could become largest health group in Ky.
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| Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center |
The company also announced a system-wide rebranding effort designed to bring all of its facilities under a new brand name: Baptist Health. The goal, said Andy Sears, vice president of planning and system development for the nonprofit organization, is to broaden its reach across the state. System-wide, Baptist Health has more than 1,900 licensed acute-care beds and served 93,892 inpatients and 1.8 million outpatients in 2011.
- 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...
- $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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Oldham Faith-based Clinic To Reopen Under Oversight Of Nonprofit
A clinic that was the only one of its kind in Oldham, Henry, Trimble and Carroll counties will reopen under the oversight of a nonprofit organization. The facility, formerly known as the Community Care Clinic, will be re-christened the Hope Health...