KentuckyOne Health: Jewish Hospital to suspend heart transplant program

Jewish Hospital will shelve its heart transplant program effective Aug. 17, according to an announcement from Louisville-based KentuckyOne Health Inc., the organization that manages the hospital. Dr. Ron Waldridge, president of Jewish Hospital, made the announcement to KentuckyOne staff in an email. "This program inactivation only affects the heart transplant program at Jewish Hospital," Waldridge wrote in the email. "It does not affect other solid organ transplant programs provided at Jewish...