Jewish Hospital Marketing Photograph Collection, ca. 1950-2010
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Jewish Hospital
Title: The Jewish Hospital Marketing Photograph Collection, ca. 1950-2010
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: .5 cubic feet
Location Number: 019PC58
Scope and Content Note
The Jewish Hospital Marketing Photograph Collection consists of 23 folders of black-and-white and color photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, and digital images. Most date from the 1980s through the first decade of the 2000s, an era of corporate mergers for Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The collection documents Jewish Hospital’s downtown campus, staff, board members, affiliated medical facilities, and the first hand transplant surgeries. Photographers include Patrick Pfister, Gus Frank, and Lin Caufield, among others.
Folders 1-10 contain photographic images, ca. 1950-early 2000s, documenting Jewish Hospital buildings, staff, board members, and mergers. Included are images of Jewish Hospital’s downtown campus and aerial views of downtown Louisville; slides about the Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services (JHHS) merger; a copy of a poster of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare’s mission; and photographs of Jewish Hospital board members, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other staff. See the attached spreadsheets for the list of names of physicians (click to access PDF) and board members (click to access PDF) represented in the photographs. Copies of the spreadsheets are also included in the finding aid folder.
Folders 11-17 contain images from 1983-2005 of medical facilities affiliated with Jewish Hospital and publicity photos for the first two hand transplants. Included are images of Jewish Hospital SkyCare staff, helicopters and planes, coal mining areas in eastern Kentucky, and aerial views of Louisville; Jewish Hospital’s Rudd Heart and Lung Center construction; the Amelia Brown Frazier Rehabilitation Center; Southern Indiana Rehabilitation Hospital; Washington County Memorial Hospital; the Jewish Hospital Hand Care Center; and press conferences for the first two hand transplants in the United States, performed at Jewish Hospital.
Digital materials include digital images extracted from CD-Rs (stored in Folder 18) from 2002-2009 of Frazier Rehab locations in Louisville and Indiana, the opening of the Children’s Peace Center and the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility at Our Lady of Peace, and Jewish Hospital in a Louisville history timeline. The collection also includes a digital image of a Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare poster (a paper print-out of the digital surrogate is stored in Folder 1), outlining the mission and values of the newly formed health care entity. Digital materials are available. These files are restricted to in-house viewing. Please see the reference desk or email gro.l1714684901aciro1714684901tsihn1714684901oslif1714684901@hcra1714684901eser1714684901.
Folders 19-23 contain photographs and contact sheets that are under HIPAA Privacy Rule restriction through the year 2100. These photographic images from 1999-2010 document the surgical procedures of the first hand transplant in the United States, performed at Jewish Hospital in 1999, and of other hand transplants at Jewish Hospital and the patients’ rehabilitative care.
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Related Collections:
Jewish Hospital (Louisville, Ky.) Records, 1905-2008 [Mss. BF J59].
Jewish Hospital (Louisville, Ky.) AbioCor records, 1999-2003 [Mss. C J].
Jewish Hospital SkyCare (Louisville, Ky.) Scrapbook, 2982-1985. 2 vols. [Mss. SB J59].
Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Center (Louisville, Ky.) Scrapbook of building construction, 1900-1995. 1 vol. [Mss. SB J59a].
Jewish Hospital (Louisville, Ky.) Scrapbook of AbioCor transplants, 2001-2002. 1 vol. [Mss. SB J59b].
Jewish Hospital Photograph Collection, ca. 1985-1988 [019PC41].
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HeathCare poster, ca. 2005 [PR540.0006].
Rick Pitino KentuckyOne Health poster, ca. 2015 [PR780.0001].
Historical Note
Jewish Hospital opened in 1905 as a 32-bed institution at the corner of Floyd and Kentucky streets in Louisville, Kentucky, with the aim of building a hospital for Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and other members of the Jewish community. In the decade after World War II, a fundraising drive to build a larger hospital in downtown Louisville secured over $800,000 in donations from the community and a federal Hill-Burton allocation of $1,284,000. The Jewish architectural firm Joseph and Joseph oversaw the design and construction of the new Jewish Hospital, which opened in 1955 at Brook and Chestnut streets. In the 1960s, Jewish Hospital began to build a reputation as a regional medical center specializing in heart and hand surgery and kidney transplants and treatments. Jewish Hospital was the site of many “firsts,” including the first hand transplant in the United States in 1999.
The 1980s launched an era of corporate reorganization for Jewish Hospital of Louisville, Ky., starting with the creation of JH Systems in 1983, later renamed Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services (JHHS) in 1988. By 1995, JHHS had expanded to include the Amelia Brown Frazier Rehabilitation Center, the Rudd Heart and Lung Center, and a regional network of outpatient facilities and twelve hospitals. In 2005, JHHS and Caritas Health Services merged to create Jewish Hospital and St. Mary’s HealthCare, with JHHS and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) as parent companies. In 2012, Jewish Hospital and St. Mary’s HealthCare merged with Saint Joseph Health System of Lexington to form KentuckyOne Health. UofL Health purchased Jewish Hospital in 2019, renaming it UofL Health – Jewish Hospital.
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Sources:
Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence, https://jewishheritagefund.com/about-2/about-jhfe/
A Legendary Vision: The History of Jewish Hospital, by Barbara Zingman and Betty Lou Amster.
Photograph List
Box 1
Folder 1: Jewish Hospital staff and mergers, ca. 1960-2005
Folder 2: Jewish Hospital downtown medical campus, 1950, ca. 1990-2000
Folder 3: Jewish Hospital medical staff presidents, physicians A-E, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of physicians represented in the photographs)
Folder 4: Jewish Hospital physicians F-G, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of physicians represented in the photographs)
Folder 5: Jewish Hospital physicians H-K, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of physicians represented in the photographs)
Folder 6: Jewish Hospital physicians L-O, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of physicians represented in the photographs)
Folder 7: Jewish Hospital physicians P-Z, nurse Nancy Zimmer, and unidentified, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of physicians represented in the photographs)
Folder 8: Jewish Hospital board members A-F, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of board members represented in the photographs)
Folder 9: Jewish Hospital board members H-L, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of board members represented in the photographs)
Folder 10: Jewish Hospital board members M-Z and unidentified, ca. 1960-2005 (click to access PDF of board members represented in the photographs)
Folder 11: Jewish Hospital SkyCare, 1982-1991
Folder 12: Rudd Heart and Lung Center construction, ca. 1990-1995
Box 2
Folder 13: Amelia Brown Frazier Rehabilitation Center, ca. 1990s
Folder 14: Independence Square at Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital (New Albany), ca. 1990s
Folder 15: Washington County (Salem, Indiana) Memorial Hospital, ca. 1990s
Folder 16: Jewish Hospital Hand Care Center, ca. 2001
Folder 17: Matthew Scott and Gerald (Jerry) Fischer publicity and surgical team, 1999-2005
Digital materials
These files are restricted to in-house viewing. Please see the reference desk or email gro.l1714684901aciro1714684901tsihn1714684901oslif1714684901@hcra1714684901eser1714684901.
Folder 18: Frazier Rehab locations, Our Lady of Peace Hospital events, Louisville Jewish Hospital timeline, ca. 2002-2009, CD-Rs
Frazier Rehab Brownsboro Rd.
Frazier Rehab East
Frazier Rehab locations in Kentucky and southern Indiana
Louisville Timeline Jewish Hospital, 23 September 2002
Our Lady of Peace Children’s Peace Center event, 16 August 2009
Our Lady of Peace opening of the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, April 1009
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare mission and values poster, ca. 2005
Box 3
These folders are under HIPAA Privacy Rule restriction through the year 2100 and are stored in the vault on L5.
Folder 19: Matthew Scott hand transplant, 1999
Folder 20: Matthew Scott rehabilitation, ca. 2000-2005
Folder 21: Gerald (Jerry) Fisher hand transplant, 2001
Folder 22: Dave Armstrong hand transplant, 2009
Folder 23: Rich Edwards rehabilitation, 2010
Subject Headings
African American physicians – Kentucky – Louisville.
Amelia Brown Frazier Rehabilitation Center (Louisville, Ky.)
Coal mine accidents – Kentucky.
Hand – Surgery – Kentucky – Louisville.
Helicopter ambulance – Kentucky – Louisville.
Hospital buildings – Kentucky – Louisville.
Hospital patients – Kentucky – Louisville.
Hospital trustees – Kentucky – Louisville.
Hospitals – Employees – Kentucky – Louisville.
Hospitals – Kentucky – Louisville.
Hospitals – Indiana.
Jewish Hospital (Louisville, Ky.)
Jewish Hospital Healthcare Service (Louisville, Ky.)
Jewish Hospital SkyCare (Louisville, Ky.)
Jewish physicians – Kentucky – Louisville.
Nurses – Kentucky – Louisville.
Our Lady of Peace Hospital (Louisville, Ky.)
Pharmacists – Kentucky – Louisville.
Physicians – Kentucky – Louisville.
Rudd Heart and Lung Center (Louisville, Ky.)
Southern Indiana Rehabilitation Hospital (New Albany, Ind.)
Transplant surgeons – Kentucky – Louisville.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. – Kentucky – Louisville.
Washington County Memorial Hospital (Salem, Ind.)
