4/29/2009

Our Lady of Peace Opens First Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities

for Intensive Special Needs in Kentucky

Louisville, Ky. (April 29, 2009) – Our Lady of Peace – a service of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare – will host a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, April 30 at 10 a.m. to open Kentucky’s first Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF) serving children, age 12-17, with intensive special needs. 

The new facilities were designed and built for children with psychiatric conditions and other special needs including mental retardation, autism or brain injury.  The two PRTFs are located on property between 4419 LaSalle and 4416 Malcolm avenues in south Louisville (40215 -- near Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital and behind the St. Mary’s Surgery Center on Churchman Avenue).
           
The $2.1 million building project includes two, one-of-a-kind, facilities in Kentucky designed to serve children and adolescents as a "step down" residential center from inpatient psychiatric hospital care. Each facility includes nine beds, a food preparation area, dining area, baths and classroom.

WHAT:           Ribbon Cutting for Our Lady of Peace’s Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities 

WHERE:          4419 LaSalle Avenue Between Greenwell and St. Jude Avenues, Louisville, KY 40215

WHEN:           April 30 from 10 - 11 a.m.

WHO:            Our Lady of Peace

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:     Tim Brady, CEO, Our Lady of Peace; the Honorable Tom Burch, Kentucky House of Representatives (District 30);  Alice  Bridges, Executive Director of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation;  and Jennie Hulette, Assistant Vice President and Program Director, Our Lady of Peace.                                                       

ABOUT OUR LADY OF PEACE
Our Lady of Peace is a private, not-for-profit psychiatric hospital in Louisville, KY, a service of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare.  The Hospital was originally founded in 1951 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and is licensed for 416 beds, currently operating 260 beds.  OLOP is the largest private psychiatric hospital in the nation in terms of licensed bed capacity, the second largest in current operating capacity and the largest provider of child/adolescent inpatient psychiatric care in the country.  O ur Lady of Peace operates a full continuum of services for patients from young children to seniors, with a special emphasis on psychiatric care for children and adolescents, including several special needs programs.  We serve patients from all over Kentucky & the surrounding region, including eleven other states.