Greater Louisville offers world-class medical facilities; the health care industry employs more than 45,000 people, many of whom work in downtown Louisville's medical center, hospitals, and related facilities close to the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Health care costs remain below the national average, and the city was one of the first in the nation to guarantee health care for the indigent. Major area medical facilities are Baptist Hospital East, affiliated with Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center; Caritas Medical Center, offering advanced treatment in cancer, pain management diabetes, and cardiopulmonary services; Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services in New Albany, Indiana, which has the area's only full-service urologic center; Jewish Hospital, internationally known as a high-technology specialty center; Norton Health Care, with five locations in Louisville offering a Women's Pavilion and centers for spine, neuroscience, and cancer treatment and advanced orthopedics as well as Kosair Children's Hospital; Tri-County Baptist Hospital; University of Louisville Hospital, featuring the area's only Level I trauma center and bone-marrow transplant unit; Vencor Hospital, which treats medically complex, chronically ill patients; and Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Health Care Information: Jefferson County Medical Society, 101 South Chestnut St., Louisville, Ky 40202; telephone and fax (502)589-2001.