The Kentucky Rural Health Association educates providers and consumers on rural health issues and advocates actions by private and public leaders to assure equitable access to health care for rural Kentuckians.
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2009 Fall Conference 
Click here to view a printable version of the 2009 Fall Conference brochure. Be sure to register online by clicking here. |
Dan Martin Award 
In June of 2003, the Kentucky Rural Health Association began a new tradition. At the organization’s annual conference, it announced the first recipient of an award honoring a lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky; this recipient was Dr. Dan Martin of the Trover Foundation in Madisonville. The annual award now bears his name and is given each year to an individual who has provided many years of service to rural Kentuckians. The individual’s contributions might be in areas of direct patient care, health professions education, health administration, health promotion or public advocacy. |
A STATE OF GRAY: Kentucky’s health care system could feel the effects of growing elderly population
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NRHA Rural Health Policy Institute Capitol Hill Visits January 2009
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Kentuckian named to NRHA’s Rural Health Congress Dr. Baretta Casey, director of the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, has been appointed to the National Rural Health Association’s Rural Health Congress. The Rural Health Congress is NRHA’s policy-making body. It is made up of elected representatives from each of the association’s nine constituency groups, its State Association Council, its State Office Council, its issue groups, and the association’s officers. This gives the board grassroots representation that reflects the concerns of NRHA’s membership. The Rural Health Congress determines the association’s positions on public policy through a series of policy briefs and issue papers. Casey will be a representative of the Research and Education Constituency Group, which is chaired by Roxanna Jokela, director of Rural Health Education Network and deputy director of the Nebraska Area Health Education Center Program Office at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. “Baretta Casey brings a wealth of applied rural health professions workforce and health services research experience, as well as national workforce policy experience with the American Medical Association,” Jokela said. “She will be a valued addition to our representation on the NRHA Rural Health Congress.”
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During the course of his 21 years at the UK June BuchEthel Morris, 91, of Jackson, KY is part of the growing elderly demographic in rural Kentucky.anan Medical Clinic, Dr. Kenneth Slone has noticed a gradual increase in the proportion of elderly patients he treats – so much so that they now comprise over half of the clinic’s total patient volume.
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