Contact Mary Margaret Colliver
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The University of Kentucky Chandler Medical
Center, in collaboration with St. Claire Medical Center in Morehead and the Trover
Foundation in Madisonville, will establish UK Center for Rural Health sites in Morehead
and Madisonville.
See related story in the May 7, 1999, edition
of the Lexington
Herald-Leader.
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LEXINGTON, KY (May 17, 1999)--The University of
Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, in collaboration with St. Claire Medical Center in
Morehead and the Trover Foundation in Madisonville, will establish UK Center for Rural
Health sites in Morehead and Madisonville. The partnership and the expansion of the Center
for Rural Health will increase substantially the efforts of meeting the rural health care
needs of Kentuckians. The Kentucky Legislature established the UK Center for Rural
Health in 1990 and charged it with a comprehensive statewide mission. This action
reflected legislators’ concerns with the chronic shortage of health professionals in
rural areas, the poor health status of many rural residents, and the importance of local
availability of quality health care services to communities.
The Center for Rural Health’s activities include collecting statistical
information and conducting research about rural health care in Kentucky; evaluating and
promoting health policy issues; establishing family practice medicine residencies in rural
areas of the state; operating training programs for needed health care professionals; and
collaborating with rural communities to develop more effective health care services.
The initial UK Center for Rural Health site was established in Hazard in 1990.
Formation of the sites at St. Claire Medical Center in Morehead and Trover Foundation in
Madisonville emphasizes the ongoing health care needs in all areas of rural Kentucky. The
Hazard center has several educational programs, including a family practice residency
program, as well as nurse practitioner, physical therapy and clinical laboratory sciences
programs.
The leadership role that St. Claire Medical Center has demonstrated in rural health
care in Northeastern Kentucky over the past 35 years made it an ideal partner for this
expansion. The UK Chandler Medical Center and St. Claire Medical Center already are
partners with Morehead State University, providing training programs for physician
assistants and nurse practitioners, as well as other student and practitioner support
services. UK has established residency programs at St. Claire in surgery, internal
medicine, pathology, family practice and clinical pharmacy.
Loman Trover, M.D. and Faull Trover, M.D. founded Trover Clinic in 1953. The Trover
Foundation, becoming integrated as a health care delivery system in 1994, encompasses a
regional medical center, Trover Clinic, an educational division and Trover Health Plans. |
