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How pioneering Louisville doctors changed modern medicine | Exclusive
Because of pioneering doctors in Louisville, 10 people with missing hands regained their sense of touch and several heart patients with mere days left to live received a mechanical heart, and an extended lease on life. At the turn of the millennium, doctors in Louisville performed two very different groundbreaking surgeries that carved Kentucky’s name in medical history books — the world’s first successful hand transplant and the first totally enclosed, self-contained mechanical heart, each paving the way for future procedures and treatments. The hand transplant, which wa first performed at then Jewish Hospital in 1999, forged a new era of anti-rejection drugs and set the stage for other transplants and multi-organ puzzles, such as face transplants. The first enclosed, self-contained mechanical heart, too, took cardiovascular medicine into a new era when it was performed at Jewish Hospital, now University of Louisville Jewish Hospital , in 2001, where fully internal machines could operate in place of human organs. These advances sent a signal to doctors around the world about Louisville's strength in medicine, said Dr. Christopher Jones, medical director of U of L Health’s Trager Transplant Center . “These are things ... from a medical perspective that put Louisville, Kentucky,
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Louisville expands services at Park Hill Neighborhood Place office
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Park Hill residents and surrounding neighbors can now access expanded support closer to home, including help with SNAP and Medicaid applications, youth mental health screenings and behavioral health services at Bridges of Hope Neighborhood Place. Louisville Metro Deputy Mayor Nicole George said the goal is to...
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October Proclaimed As National Long-Term Care Residents Rights Month In Columbia
The Month of October, 2026, has been proclaimed as National Long-Term Care Residents Rights Month, as the result of a proclamation issued this week by Columbia Mayor Pamela Hoots. According to information in the proclamation, there are 1.2 million individuals living in 14,700 nursing homes; and, over one million individuals...