Becker's Healthcare January 24, 2025
Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health recently completed its Onward as One campaign, the largest fundraising effort in system history, raising $125.8 million from more than 7,000 individual donors.
The funds are being used to support initiatives addressing community needs across the system’s 10 hospitals and more than 470 points of care, with a focus on improving access, CEO Gerard Colman, PhD, told Becker’s.
Since the campaign began in 2020, Baptist Health has opened new facilities and expanded services, with donations directed toward initiatives within the communities where the funds were raised.
Key expansions
“At Baptist Health Hardin, we opened a medical pavilion, which is the largest expansion in the hospital’s history,” Dr. Colman said, adding that the pavilion in Elizabethtown, Ky.,...