As it plans West End hospital, Norton Healthcare facing another race discrimination suit

As Norton Healthcare prepares to open the first hospital built in Louisville’s West End in more than a century, the massive local company is also preparing to defend itself in court against allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation from three current and former Black employees. Norton Healthcare is the lone defendant in the civil lawsuit, filed in 2022 by a supply chain manager still with the company and two former human resources employees. The former HR employees claim they were overruled and later forced out after they recommended firing a...