Know a Lexington Healthcare Hero?
It’s time to nominate your favorites for the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department’s Dr. Rice C. Leach Public Health Hero Award. The award, now in its 21st year, is for individuals who have demonstrated their dedication to improving the health of Lexington, KY residents. Criteria for the selection of the award include: Exemplary leadership and diligence in promoting public health; ...
UK Children’s Hospital opens Richmond Road location
UK Kentucky Children's Hospital Richmond Road will begin welcoming patients today, October 16, 2023. The facility officially opened last week with a ribbon cutting, celebrating the new home of four pediatric specialty clinics. This facility will offer a continuum of care to infants, children and adolescents with complex medical and behavioral needs. The four clinics include: Complex Care Clinic, which provides...
Appalachian Regional Healthcare opens in Lexington
Appalachian Regional Healthcare has opened its first facility in Lexington KY, and celebrated the occasion this week with a ribbon cutting. ARH Medical Associates is now open at Redding Road, off Tates Creek in Lexington. This is ARH's first Lexington location.
EKU Celebrates Rural Health Day in Kentucky
November 17 is National Rural Health Day, which acknowledges health care challenges faced in rural communities and celebrates current and future professionals working every day to improve health outcomes for all. On National Rural Health Day, EKU and Anthem Medicaid recognize two new scholarship recipients working to transform lives in eastern Kentucky Eastern Kentucky University and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky...
Frontier Nursing University Named A “Great College to Work For”
For the second consecutive year, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has been named one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to the Great Colleges to Work For® program. The results were released in September, via a special insert of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The results are based on a survey of 212 colleges and universities....