The Baptist Health organization has been working hard to improve the environment for its employees since being acquired by Florida-based Orlando Health a year ago, the Baptist Health president told the Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.

The company has invested about $50 million in facility and equipment improvements and boosted its wage and benefit packages for employees, said Thibaut Van Marcke, who also serves as the senior vice president for Orlando Health over the company’s Alabama region.

Baptist Health’s facilities, which include five hospitals in Homewood, Birmingham, Alabaster, Talladega and Jasper and a stand-alone emergency department in north Shelby County, had been somewhat neglected by the previous owners, Van Marcke said.

The facility improvements have included e

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