The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health was established in 1990 to address health disparities in rural Kentucky, including a chronic shortage of health professionals and residents’ poor health status. The Center accomplishes this through health professionals education, health policy research,...
Kayla Combs Whitaker and Kimberly Boggs, rural project managers for the Kentucky Office of Rural Health (KORH), attended the National Rural Health Resource Center (NRHRC) Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Workshop in April in Duluth, Minnesota.
Topics at the workshop included national quality...
Charles Marshall, Ph.D., has been named the 2013 recipient of the UK College of Health Sciences Kingston Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is an instructor in the Division of Physical Therapy whose primary teaching responsibility is to the Center of Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, KY. He...
For one University of Kentucky doctorate of physical therapy (DPT) student, a passion for sports and a talent for physical therapy research have converged to create an extraordinary opportunity: Daniel Eck has been selected to present his research findings at the American Physical Therapy...
Video by UK Research Reveal Media
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 18, 2013) − Many people in the Appalachian region of Kentucky have little or no access to health insurance to assist in paying for medical equipment like walkers, wheelchairs, canes, or crutches. A group of faculty and students at the ...
Fran Feltner, a longtime nurse and lay health worker administrator, began her term as the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health-Hazard’s director on June 1, 2011. Feltner has worked in rural health for 35...
