I Shouldn't Be Here. But I am.

Getting You Back
To The Life You Love

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20 nationally-ranked
and high-performing
specialties

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Faster access to the
latest treatments

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Ranked Kentucky’s
#1 hospital, nine
years in a row

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More specialists
and specialties
for personalized care

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The highest-trained
doctors and researchers,
working together for you

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An award-winning
nursing staff

“Doc, you gave me the gift of life.”

Seven broken ribs. A broken collarbone. A collapsed lung and an out-of-body experience. Howard Galbreath thought the ATV accident that destroyed his chest was going to kill him.

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“Without him, I wouldn't be here.”

Joshua Taylor’s heart failed more than a decade ago. It took 180 days in the hospital, a medically-induced coma, months of rehab and a 12-hour transplant surgery to save his life.

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“I’m underwater and I can't move.”

The dive shattered Kayla’s back and severed her spinal cord. She spent 31 days in the ICU, then months in rehab—determined not just to live, but to regain the freedom to live her life.

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