Norton Healthcare

Norton Healthcare is one of Kentucky's largest healthcare system with more than 40 locations in and around Louisville, Kentucky. For 128 years, Norton Healthcare's faith heritage has guided its mission to provide quality health care to all those it serves. The hospital and health care system is the Louisville area's third largest private employer, providing care at more than 140 locations throughout Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana. The Louisville-based not-for-profit system includes five Louisville hospitals with 1,837 licensed beds; seven outpatient centers; 12 Norton Immediate Care Centers; nearly 12,000 employees; some 654 employed medical providers; and approximately 2,000 total physicians on its medical staff. In 2013 Norton Healthcare was named by Healthiest Employers as the seventh healthiest place to work in the country.

History

What is now known as Norton Healthcare originally started with the actions of the Home Mission Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Mary Louise Sutton Norton led this group, through her fundraising ideas and leadership, to create The John N. Norton Memorial Infirmary in 1886, which was named in honor of her late husband. The hospital system has had multiple influences from religious groups over the years, including the Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, and the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian communities, all of which were dedicated to promoting the idea of health and medical care for the sick and less fortunate.