Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a fullspectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’ s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and Floyd, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40- bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U. S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet ® or Pathway to Excellence ® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’ s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 860 physicians and more than 950 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’ s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
ContinueCARE Hospital
ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Corbin is southeastern Kentucky ' s only Long Term Acute Care Hospital( LTACH). This is a
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