Baptist Health Madisonville (Ky.) recently announced it will open the first stage of a new "hospital within a hospital" for long-term patients this summer.
The new hospital at Baptist Health Madisonville is projected to create 75 full-time jobs and eventually save 540 families a year from traveling outside the area for care, according to a news release.
"This is excellent news for the sickest of our sick patients and their families, who currently have to travel long distances across Kentucky or even out of state for this level of care," William A. Brown, regional executive of Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health, said in a statement.
Baptist Health Madisonville's sister hospital Baptist Health Paducah (Ky.) also plans to develop a long-term acute care hospital within its facility, the release reads. CMS has authorized Baptist Health Madisonville and Baptist Health Paducah to begin the process to demonstrate need for permanent licenses. They will begin a demonstration period of about six months in June, with the long-term goal of licensure of 36 beds in Madisonville and 37 beds in Paducah by next year.
Baptist Health is partnering with ContinueCARE Hospital, a subsidiary of Plano, Texas-based Community Hospital Corporation, to operate the new hospitals with the current facilities at Madisonville and Paducah.
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