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Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Well being just lately accomplished its Onward as One marketing campaign, the biggest fundraising effort in system historical past, elevating $125.8 million from greater than 7,000 particular person donors.

The funds are getting used to help initiatives addressing neighborhood wants throughout the system’s 10 hospitals and greater than 470 factors of care, with a concentrate on enhancing entry, CEO Gerard Colman, PhD, advised Becker’s.

For the reason that marketing campaign started in 2020, Baptist Well being has opened new amenities and expanded companies, with donations directed towards initiatives throughout the communities the place the funds had been raised.

Key expansions

“At Baptist Well being Hardin, we opened a medical pavilion, which is the biggest enlargement within the hospital’s historical past,” Dr. Colman stated, including that the pavilion in Elizabethtown, Ky., included doctor places of work, new surgical suites and expanded most cancers care. “Hardin County is among the quickest rising populous areas within the state of Kentucky, so it is very thrilling that we’re capable of meet these neighborhood wants.”

The system opened Baptist Well being Hamburg in Lexington, Ky., a complete outpatient heart providing most cancers and cardiovascular care, imaging, orthopedic companies and an emergency division. The funds additionally supported orthopedic and cardiovascular facility expansions at Baptist Well being Louisville, which was designed to boost capability and supply extra well timed care, Dr. Colman stated. 

In Western Kentucky, Baptist Well being Paducah expanded its maternal care division, with a brand new urology clinic and catheterization labs. 

Moreover, Baptist Well being plans to construct a hospital in Crestwood, Ky.

Behavioral well being initiatives

Group well being wants assessments carried out each three years in all 10 markets performed a key function in figuring out enlargement priorities.

“Sadly, psychological well being and habit have trended in these neighborhood wants assessments,” Dr. Colman stated. In response, Baptist Well being opened two inpatient behavioral well being items in La Grange, Ky., and Richmond, Ky.

“It is one thing that we have to do a a lot better job on within the healthcare neighborhood,” he stated. “Everybody talks about behavioral well being, nevertheless it’s as much as us to do one thing about it.”

Future progress

As Baptist Well being enters its one hundred and first 12 months offering care, the system stays targeted on assembly rising calls for, which incorporates recruitment of physicians, nurses and clinicians to fulfill a spread of wants, Dr. Colman stated.

“Our mission and values haven’t modified in these 100 years,” he stated. “We have accelerated the tempo of change to supply greater high quality care and higher outcomes to the neighborhood, actually specializing in affected person expertise, which is the No. 1 want round entry.”