Community Healthcare Resources

HARDIN

Community Healthcare Resources

There are numerous healthcare resources in Baptist Health Hardin’s service area, but they are not distributed evenly. Baptist Health’s Planning department catalogued the various types and locations of these resources:

Hospital-specific resources

There are a number of hospitals in the service area. A list of these facilities is shown in Appendix D. Additionally, many residents travel to Louisville/Jefferson County for hospital care; there are ten, large medical/surgical acute care hospitals, a rehabilitation hospital, and four psychiatric hospitals located in the most populous county in the State; two additional rehabilitation hospitals are undergoing certificate of need review. The only inpatient services not offered in the service area are open heart surgery, neonatal level III critical care, burn care, and transplant services.

All hospital discharges of service area residents by service line are shown in Appendix C. Over 31 percent of all discharges for the most recent year can be attributed to General Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine. Slightly fewer people per capita are using inpatient services than in Kentucky as a whole; there are 103.2 discharges per thousand population in the service area compared to 106.8 in Kentucky. In the U.S. in 2017, utilization averaged 104.9 discharges per thousand. The service area utilization seems to be in line with the rest of Kentucky.

Other Licensed Facilities

According to the Kentucky Office of the Inspector General, there are 42 licensed facilities other than hospitals in the service area, including nine adult day health facilities, a community mental health facility, an ambulatory surgery center, eleven end stage renal disease facilities (dialysis centers), the only outpatient health care clinic in the state (U of L Health has indicated they will make this facility in northern Bullitt County into a 60-bed acute care hospital), four home health agencies, a residential hospice service, five mental retardation/developmental delay (MRDD) homes, and seven imaging, diagnostic, and treatment centers

Health Department

The Lincoln Trail District Health Department participated in this Community Health Needs Assessment. They are a strong partner with the hospital in serving the needs of a six-county area including Hardin, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson and Washington counties. This department provides environmental, preventive, curative, and health maintenance services to area citizens by direct healthcare, health education, counseling, and enforcement of laws that protect health and the environment.

Physicians

Baptist Health Hardin has a medical staff of over 445 physicians and advanced practice clinicians in over 40 specialties. There are additional providers in the service area who are not on the medical staff at the hospital. Baptist Health Medical Group works with the hospital to address shortages in the area. The hospital and the medical group have a detailed recruitment plan covering the next five years. The 22