CAREER CENTER
Hardin Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute care hospital, which is county-owned and whose Board of Trustees consists of the members of Hardin County Fiscal Court. Hardin Memorial Hospital is managed by Baptist Ventures, Inc. and is accredited by The Joint Commission . At present Hardin Memorial Hospital has a medical staff of 200+ and 30+ specialties represented. Open-heart surgery, neurosurgery, radiation therapy and bariatric medicine are some of the services offered by Hardin Memorial Hospital.
The hospital serves a 10 county service area with a population of 350,000. The Emergency Department sees more than 50,000 patients per year. Diagnostic imaging services are expanding with the addition of MRI and CT in outlying clinics throughout the service area.
THE COMMUNITY
Elizabethtown is the county seat of Hardin County, and was recently named one of the safest small cities in the United States. Located just west of I-65 in central Kentucky, 40 minutes south of Louisville and two (2) hours north of Nashville. The city population is 25,000 and the county population is 98,000. The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission included Fort Knox, located within Hardin County, and will positively impact the future economic growth for this area. It is estimated that the general population will increase by at least 5,000 people with the implementation of BRAC over the next few years. For more information about Elizabethtown, Kentucky, please visit the community information page.