A Multidisciplinary Approach to Total Joint Replacement

Baptist Hospital East is proud to be the leading joint replacement center in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. More joint replacement surgeries are performed at Baptist Hospital East than at any other hospital in the state. In addition, the hospital staff has designed a cutting edge total joint replacement program that assists patients from preadmission to postdischarge. Patients attend pre—joint replacement class to help prepare them for the surgery and for postsurgical recovery. After surgery, the staff promptly addresses the need for therapeutic services and pain management. Furthermore, measures to reduce postoperative complications have been implemented and have proven to be very successful. As a result of all of these measures, Baptist Hospital East total joint program has an infection rate below the national benchmark and an average length of stay of 3.7 days, with 70% of the patients returning directly to a home environment.