Yesterday on Veterans Day, Norton West Louisville Hospital opened its doors.

It's been more than 150 years since a hospital has been built.

And West Louisville.

More about that in today's medical news.

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We welcome to Norton West Louisville Hospital.

We must acknowledge our health care system is deeply unequal.

You're West Louisville alone.

Life expectancy is 15 years lower than it is in other parts of our city.

This is an appalling consequence, an appalling consequence of intentional policies based on the worst parts of human nature racism, greed, apathy.

We must acknowledge these truths.

It's time for something different.

It's time for a change.

It's time for a renewal.

It's time.

There hasn't been a hospital built west of Ninth Street in Louisville, Kentucky, in over 150 years.

Northwest Louisville Hospital is close to my home.

It comes to my neighborhood at an exceptional time and opening our Veterans Day.

Well, I believe that speaks volumes, volumes of hope for the future of the various generations, ethnicities, families, the veterans and myself living in this community.

It's the most insightful, compassionate effort I think our city has seen in generations.

Because a building like a community only works when it is built from the bottom up, not the top down.

And what this building is, is it's a space entirely informed by the needs and desires of the community it was built to serve.

This opening is a yes, a yes, a yes.

Yes for the community.

It says that you care about the people that you honor, the residents that you see your duty to join in community to provide quality health care here for us.

What Norton surveyed more than 4500 people to find out the needs of the community.