St. Elizabeth Medical Center, with hospitals in Covington, Edgewood and Williamstown, Kentucky has been serving the health care needs of Northern Kentucky since its founding in 1861. HealthGrades has named St. Elizabeth a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence, placing it in the top 5% of hospitals in the nation for quality of care, for three consecutive years and for patient safety in 2005, among an elite group of only 14 teaching hospitals in the nation to achieve that level of distinction.