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Mercy Health Marcum and Wallace Hospital services, include acute care, emergency care, rehabilitation therapies, imaging, lab services, respiratory therapy, sleep studies and primary care through three Rural Health Clinics. [4] The hospital is also a Level IV Trauma Center [5] and an Accredited Chest Pain Center. [6]
The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) provides healthcare services to rural, underserved populations since 1925, and educates nurse-midwives since 1939.. The Service maintains six rural healthcare clinics in eastern Kentucky, the Mary Breckinridge Hospital (now part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare [2]), the Mary Breckinridge Home Health Agency, the Frontier Nursing University and the Bed and ...
Baptist Health Deaconess Health System: Baptist Health La Grange: Oldham: La Grange: 120: General: 1987 [4] Baptist Health Baptist Health Lexington: Fayette: Lexington: 383: General: 1954 [5] Baptist Health Baptist Health Louisville: Jefferson: Louisville: 519: General: 1924 [5] Baptist Health Baptist Health Paducah: McCracken: Paducah: 295 ...
Mary Carson Breckinridge (February 17, 1881 – May 16, 1965) was an American nurse midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which provided comprehensive family medical care to the mountain people of rural Kentucky. FNS served remote and impoverished areas off the road and rail system but accessible by horseback.
A rural health clinic (RHC) is a clinic located in a rural, medically under-served area in the United States that has a separate reimbursement structure from the standard medical office under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. RHCs were established by the Rural Health Clinic Services Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-210), (Section 1905 of the Social ...
Rockcastle Regional Hospital and Respiratory Care Center is a not-for-profit acute and long-term care hospital located in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky.The facility primarily serves Rockcastle and surrounding counties with its 26-bed acute care facility, but receives referrals for its 143-bed [1] ventilator facility nationwide It is an eleven-time winner of the Kentucky Hospital Association Quality ...
Linda Blackford: Kentucky rural school districts face declining populations, low property values, shrinking budgets. School choice seems more than a little abstract. ‘Heart of this community.’
Rural areas within the U.S. have been found to have a lower life expectancy than urban areas by approximately 2.4 years. [17] Rural U.S. populations are at a greater risk of mortality due to non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke, as well as unintentional injuries such as automobile accidents and opioid overdoses compared to urban ...