BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — In Warren County, one hospital is celebrating 20 years of service.

The Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital has been providing care for patients who require a longer and more complex care.

Lyndsay Collins, a registered nurse case manager with Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital, said, “They require a lot of care and they require that care for a long period of time and so we’ve been able to give that care and give them a best chance for a recovery right here close to home, instead of being sent to a facility much farther away.”

And now, the hospital is celebrating their 20th anniversary. During that time, the hospital has addressed the complicated physical, emotional, spiritual nursing and rehabilitation needs of the community, serving 4500 patients the past two decades.

“There is so much involved in the care, and the patients are so sick, so that support means everything. It means everything for the family to be able to be there, to see heir loved ones every day if they want to. We have open doors people can visit,” Collins said.

They’re also the only type of hospital in the region that focuses on long term on critically ill patients.

Seth Smith, an administrator, for the Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital, said, “We focus on long-term, critically-ill patients that are gonna be in the hospital for a longer period of time than they would at the Medical Center, or a short-term care hospital.”

And for Collins, who has been here for 15 years, seeing people get better is what has kept her here.

“The part of me that is always rooting for the underdog, who wants to see these people who have catastrophic illnesses, get better. That’s kept me here," she shared.