Career Opportunities, 1955-1980
The opening of the new Jewish Hospital provided a hopeful frontier not just for medical advancement, but also for Louisville residents seeking better career opportunities.
In the decades after 1955, Jewish Hospital offered a growing list of benefits to an increasingly diverse staff, including nurses and orderlies, housekeepers and laundry workers, and laboratory technicians. By 1970, the hospital offered scholarships, pension plans, health insurance benefits, and the possibility of upward mobility. On a daily basis, a community of employees—what Jewish Hospital called a “City within a City”— strove to uphold the mission of patient care through an inclusive work culture.