Baptist Health Teams Up with Intuitive Health, Breaks Ground on Southern Indiana’s First Freestanding ER and Urgent Care

Louisville Student to Study Bahasa Indonesia on U.S. Department of State NSLI-Y Scholarship

LOUISVILLE Sandhya Lohano, a high school student at Kentucky Country Day in Louisville and daughter of Vasdev Lohano, MD, a Baptist Health endocrinologist in New Albany IN, was awarded a National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) Virtual Summer Intensive scholarship to study Bahasa Indonesia language for six weeks this past summer.

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN It’s a $10.6 million partnership that is the first of its kind in Southern Indiana. Baptist Health has joined forces with Dallas-based Intuitive Health to bring the first hybrid emergency room and urgent care clinic to Southern Indiana. A formal groundbreaking was held July 21 and the facility is expected to open in spring 2022.

Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care will be located in the Jefferson Ridge development in Jeffersonville.

The full-service emergency room will be open 24 hours a day, while the urgent care will be open 7 am-9 pm, seven days a week. Emergency room-licensed doctors will examine each patient upon arrival to determine the appropriate care and if it is emergent or urgent care. The patient will be billed accordingly. This new concept helps eliminate unnecessary emergency room visits.

“We are excited to partner with a leader in care innovation to bring this new facility to fruition,” said Michael Schroyer, president of Baptist Health Floyd. “There’s been tremendous growth in the River Ridge area and we want to establish this emergency and urgent care model to complement the primary care, occupational medicine and physical therapy location that we have located a few miles away. We want to bring the same level of quality patient care that our community has come to know from Baptist Health Floyd.”

Some of the features of Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care include:

• On-site lab, a radiology suite and multislice CT scanners

• Commitment to billing transparency.

• The facility will be in-network with most major insurance plans and accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

“This facility will be the first of its kind in Southern Indiana,” said Baptist Health CEO Gerard Colman. “That kind of innovation is something we’re proud of at Baptist Health, and something that Hoosier residents are fortunate to find close to home thanks to the level of care provided by our Baptist Health Floyd hospital.”

“The hybrid emergency room and urgent care clinic is just one example of the kind of ‘next-generation’ healthcare Baptist Health wants to bring to its communities,” said Baptist Health chief strategy and marketing officer Jody Prather, MD. “We never lose sight of what’s most important to our patients – in this instance, convenience and a great patient experience – combined with the quality of care our patients have come to expect.”

The model provides pediatric and adult patients access to care 365 days a year. Each location treats everything a hospital emergency room treats, from allergies to appendicitis.

NSLI-Y is a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) that promotes critical language learning among American youth. The 2021 Virtual Summer Intensive program is as an online alternative for NSLI-Y immersion programs that could not take place overseas due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Sandhya was competitively selected from approximately 2,500 applicants from across the United States and is one of over 500 students who will study Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Russian, or Turkish as part of the virtual exchange. The NSLI-Y Virtual Summer Intensive program provides robust language and cultural learning opportunities by virtually connecting the participants with overseas teachers, international peers, cultural organizations, and communities where the target language is spoken.

NSLI-Y is part of a multi-agency U.S. government initiative launched in 2006 to improve Americans’ ability to communicate in select critical languages, advance international dialogue, and provide Americans with jobs skills for the global economy.