Baptist Health Louisville Named Top Hospital in Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (July 16, 2024) – Baptist Health Louisville is ranked as the top hospital in the Louisville Metro Region according to ranking released by U.S. News and World Report.

Baptist Health Louisville is also ranked #3 in the state of Kentucky in the 2024-2025 Best Hospital rankings survey. You can see the rankings here: https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/louisville-ky

“We’re incredibly excited to be recognized by U.S. News and World Report for being number one in metro Louisville. It’s a recognition that comes as a culmination of a lot of work from the entire team at Baptist Health Louisville who strive every single day to ensure that the care that we provide is the highest quality and the safest it possibly can be,” said Jonathan Velez, MD, President of Baptist Health Louisville.

2024 marks the eighth consecutive year that Baptist Health has had a hospital ranked in the state’s top five by U.S. News and World Report. This is Baptist Health Louisville’s eleventh time to top or tie for the #1 ranking in the Metro.

Baptist Health Louisville earned a “high performing” ranking in nine categories:

• abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
• aortic valve surgery
• COPD
• colon cancer surgery
• heart attack
• heart bypass surgery
•  hip replacement
• knee replacement
• leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma

“Our vision is to lead in clinical excellence,” Dr. Velez said. “It’s not enough for us to be good enough. We want to lead. All of our efforts are geared toward doing that and when we get this kind of feedback that suggests that we are achieving our vision, that is really a great thing to hear.”

“For 35 years, U.S. News has been a leading resource for patients navigating their health care decisions,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. “A ‘Best Hospital’ recognition empowers patients to seek out medical care from the best of the best to treat their illness or condition.”

To calculate the Best Hospitals rankings, U.S. News evaluated each hospital’s performance on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications, and level of nursing care.

The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from millions of records provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

This year, among other methodology refinements, U.S. News incorporated new data on care provided to patients with Medicare Advantage insurance and on care provided to outpatients, nearly doubling the number of patients included in its annual data analysis.  The Procedures & Conditions ratings are based entirely on objective quality measures.

About Baptist Health Louisville 

Baptist Health Louisville is a 519-bed hospital offering 83 points of care in a wide range of healthcare services. Area residents benefit from the hospital’s emergency services, including special teams for heart attack and stroke care.

The hospital’s cancer services include two freestanding Radiation Centers and the Charles and Mimi Osborn Cancer Center, which includes a cancer resource center and a multidisciplinary lung care clinic. Special services include women’s health, offering all-private maternity rooms and an expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, digital mammography, ultrasound, and bone-density scanning for osteoporosis. Other areas of expertise include orthopedics, neurosurgery, cardiovascular services, bariatric surgery, wound care, behavioral health, occupational health, and in-home care provided by Baptist Health Home Care. Baptist Health has a network of healthcare providers for patients in the metro Louisville area — from Baptist Health Medical Group physician offices to Baptist Health Urgent Care locations. A hybrid Emergency Department and Urgent Care is now open 24/7 on Blankenbaker Parkway.

The hospital has achieved Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program® for the third time. The hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the #1 hospital in the metro Louisville area and is tied for #3 in Kentucky for 2022-23.

Baptist Health Louisville is part of the nine-hospital Baptist Health system, headquartered in Louisville. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com/Louisville.