8/24/2009

Our Lady of Peace Unveils Children’s Peace Center Program

Louisville, Ky. (August 24, 2009) – Our Lady of Peace – a service of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare – will host an unveiling ceremony for its Children’s Peace Center programs on Wednesday, August 26 at 10 a.m. in the Lourdes Conference Room at Our Lady of Peace. 

Our Lady of Peace is one of the largest private providers of youth behavioral health services in the country.  Though perceptions exist to the contrary, approximately 70-75% of individuals in inpatient status at the hospital are children. 

WHAT:  Unveiling Ceremony for Children’s Peace Center programs

WHERE: 2020 Newburg Road

WHEN:   August 26 from 10 - 11 a.m.

WHO:    Tim Brady, CEO, Our Lady of Peace; Congressman John Yarmuth; Representative Jim Wayne, (D) District 35; Councilman Jim King; Sister Betty MacDougal, Academic Coordinator and Melinda Richards, a parent whose child was treated at 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.  Our 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.  

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