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.
[1] 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.
[2] Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
[2] The following is a list of Baptist Health hospitals (in Kentucky, unless otherwise indicated): Additionally, in May 2022 Baptist Health announced plans for a new hospital in Crestwood, in Oldham County, to be built in coordination with the New Urbanist planned community Clore Station.