Chris Roszman

Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare (JHSMH) was created when two of the region's most well established health systems - Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services and CARITAS Health Services- joined together in 2005. The merged company is a major regional health network that includes over 70 health care facilities with more than 1,412 licensed beds, over 42,000 discharges and almost 132,000 emergency room visits annually. JHSMH provides a complete array of health care services in Kentucky and southern Indiana including: hospitals, behavioral health, home health care, outpatient care, occupational health and rehab medicine. Jewish Hospital opened in 1905 with a mission to provide all patients with the highest quality care and a strong emphasis on research and education. Today, Jewish Hospital is a 462-bed, internationally renowned, high-tech tertiary referral center located in downtown Louisville, developing leading-edge advancements in the minimally invasive surgery, hand and microsurgery, heart and lung care, emergency care, orthopedics, neuroscience, and organ transplantation. Noted for numerous medical 'firsts' in Kentucky, the nation and the world, Jewish Hospital is the site of the nation's first four hand transplants, and the world's first and second successful AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart transplant.