COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 2022-2024
Community Healthcare Resources There are numerous healthcare resources in Baptist Health Paducah’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 and near the service area. A list of these facilities is shown in Appendix D. All hospital discharges of service area residents by service line are shown in Appendix E. More than 14 percent of all discharges for the most recent year can be attributed to Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery. More people per capita use inpatient services than in Kentucky as a whole; there are 114.7 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. High inpatient utilization in the region and in Kentucky is likely caused by poor lifestyle choices. Because of COVID-19 and the KY Governor’s executive order restricting non-emergent admissions to hospitals in April and May of 2020, overall admissions and patient days were significantly lower for all Kentucky hospitals during 2020. Volumes in 2021 seem to be rebounding to pre-COVID-19 levels. Hospital Baptist Health Paducah ContinueCare Hospital Lourdes Hospital Murray Calloway County Hospital Jackson Purchase Medical Center Crittenden Health System Caldwell Medical Center Livingston Hosp. & Healthcare Svcs. Inc. Marshall County Hospital
Type ACUTE LTACH ACUTE ACUTE ACUTE ACUTE CAH CAH CAH
Licensed Beds 349 36 359 152 107 48 25 25 25
Location McCracken McCracken McCracken Calloway Graves Crittenden Caldwell Livingston Marshall
Source: Kentucky Office of the Inspector General, Hospital Directory, as of 2/9/21 ContinueCare Hospital leases 36 beds from Baptist Health Paducah
Other Licensed Facilities According to the Kentucky Office of the Inspector General, there are 29 licensed facilities other than hospitals in Graves, Lyon, Marshall, and McCracken counties. This includes three adult day health centers, four ambulatory surgery centers, a community mental health center, four end stage renal disease facilities (dialysis centers), four home health agencies, hospice services, two mental retardation and developmental disabilities group homes, one pediatric extended care facility, six private duty nursing firms, a psychiatric residential treatment facility, and a residential crisis stabilization unit. The number of licensed facilities declined because many services were removed from the Certificate of Need program in 2019 and no longer required licenses.
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