Regulation paves way for Bullitt hospital

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear today signed a regulation that will allow Jewish Hospital Medical Center South to be transformed from an outpatient care center to an acute-care hospital with as many as 60 beds.

The regulation allows such conversion projects to apply for a "non-substantive," or expedited, review process with the Kentucky Division of Certificate of Need. The projects must take place in a county with a population of at least 60,000 residents that has no existing acute-care hospital.

Bullitt County, where the medical center is located, has a population of about 73,000.

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