KPCA Member
University of Kentucky Center
for Rural Health

Area Served
A Training Program and primary care center for people in Hazard

Contact - Staff Address Phone - Fax Area Served Hours
Dr. Baretta Casey, Director 750 Morton Blvd.
Hazard, KY 41701		 606-439-3557
606-436-8833, fax		 see above  
Description - Services
The University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health is a component of the Chandler Medical Center. The Center’s headquarters in Hazard relocated in March 2004 from the old Appalachian Regional Hospital to the new $12 million, 57,000-square-foot UK Center for Rural Health Bailey-Stumbo Building, 750 Morton Boulevard. The Kentucky State Office of Rural Health is also located within the Center.
Health education training programs offered at the Center include a Master in Physical Therapy, Master in Social Work and Bachelor of Health Science in Clinical Laboratory Sciences. The Center conducts research relating to health care disparities, outcomes, policies and delivery systems, and houses two nationally recognized lay health workers programs – the Kentucky Homeplace Program and Southeast Kentucky Community Access Program.
The Center also offers primary health care services to the residents of Perry and surrounding counties. The UK Family Practice Clinic hosts the East Kentucky Family Practice Residency Program, which provides a rural training ground for up to a dozen family practice residents at any one time. More than 80 percent of the residency program’s graduates currently practice medicine in a rural area, primarily in central Appalachia.		 Hospital Affiliation(s)

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