Jewish Hospital offers free meal celebrating Hand Care Center's fifth year

JEWISH HOSPITAL PRESS RELEASE

EDITOR'S NOTE: This event, originally scheduled for Aug. 21, has been rescheduled for Monday, Aug. 28, from 11 AM - 1 PM and again from 5 PM - 7 PM in the old SKYCARE parking lot at Brook and Liberty. There will be a tent set up in the parking lot so that you can just pull in and grab your lunch.

LOUISVILLE — Five years ago, Jewish Hospital was the first in the United States to open a Hand Care Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week complete with an emergency room, operating suites, and an overnight recovery center. The center has performed more than 20,000 procedures since opening August 20, 2001 providing immediate and emergency care to patients and allowing more direct and rapid treatment for those with specific injuries and problems to the hand, arm, and shoulder -- all in one location.

To thank the EMS on August 21, EMS workers are invited to stop by for a free “lunch to go” at the Jewish Hospital located at 201 Abraham Flexner Way.

The upper extremity is the most injured part of the body accounting for 25% of emergency room patients in the U.S. per year," says Joanne Berryman, senior vice president of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare.  “We appreciate the outstanding service EMS provides to our community.” 

Specially designed and equipped to treat upper extremity injuries and diseases, the state-of-the-art facility adds extraordinary value and focus to deliver care to patients. Internationally renowned physicians from Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center, along with specially trained hand care professionals staff the facility. The facility also offers direct access to the Kleinert Kutz  clinic bringing the latest advances in medicine and treatment.

Jewish Hospital and Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center continue to showcase their experience and expertise in the Hand Care Center. The two organizations have had nearly a 50 plus year relationship and have performed a number of firsts in hand and microsurgery including the world's first successful hand transplant, first reported repair of a digital artery, first double forearm replantation, and first double upper arm replantation.

ABOUT JEWISH HOSPITAL

Jewish Hospital is an internationally renowned high-tech tertiary referral center, developing leading-edge advancements in hand and microsurgery, heart and lung care, home care, rehab medicine (including sports medicine), orthopaedics, neuroscience, occupational health, organ transplantation, outpatient care and primary care.  Site of the world’s first and the nation's second successful hand transplants, and the world’s first and second successful AbioCor® Implantable Replacement Hearts, the hospital is also  federally designated to perform all five solid organ transplants -- heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas.  In 2006, Jewish Hospital received a number of awards and recognitions including:  the Consumer Choice Award as the most preferred hospital in Louisville for the seventh consecutive year; and Best 50 Hospitals in the areas of respiratory and heart care and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report.

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