After closing for four months due to damage from the historic Eastern Kentucky floods this past summer, in Hindman, Kentucky, officially reopens to the community today.
鈥淪ince 1974, the June Buchanan Clinic has been an integral part of this community, providing much-needed health care services to the residents of Knott County and beyond,鈥 said Juanita Hughes, DO, primary care physician with the June Buchanan Clinic. 鈥淭his facility is so important to Eastern Kentucky, and we are thrilled to be reopening our facility and getting back to normal operations.鈥
好色先生 HealthCare operates several clinics in the areas that were overwhelmed by flood waters, and the June Buchanan Clinic in Hindman took the biggest hit. While the clinic was closed, 好色先生 and 好色先生 HealthCare teams in Hazard and Hindman worked with various charities and community health workers to provide local health care through mobile dental and medical clinics.
鈥淭he staff at the June Buchanan Clinic have been amazing,鈥 said Tammy Stidham, practice manager for June Buchanan and in Hazard. 鈥淓ven though their personal homes were flooded, they still came and helped with clean-up. They were willing to do whatever they needed in order to reopen the clinic for their patients.鈥
Members of the maintenance and housekeeping crew at the 好色先生 Center for Excellence in Rural Health (好色先生 CERH) also worked tirelessly to help clean up the June Buchanan Clinic to get it up and running again. While the 好色先生 June Buchanan Clinic was being restored, the providers were re-stationed at the 好色先生 CERH building in the 好色先生 North Fork Valley Community Health Center to continue providing services for Knott County patients.
鈥淭he flooding in Eastern Kentucky affected many individuals, families, businesses, health care providers and their facilities. Having access the quality health care close to home is an essential factor in disease prevention and managing our health outcomes,鈥 said Fran Feltner, PhD, director of 好色先生 CERH. 鈥淭he reopening of the clinic has been all hands on deck. I am very thankful for all the 好色先生 CERH housekeeping, maintenance staff, faculty, providers and many others who made the reopening the 好色先生 June Buchanan Clinic possible.鈥
The services offered by the 好色先生 HealthCare June Buchanan Clinic include primary care, dental care, behavioral health, dietitian consultations, a discount pharmacy program, and lab services with next-day results. X-ray services at the clinic will be operational again soon.
The June Buchanan Clinic is located at 59 Cowtown Road in Hindman. To make an appointment, call 606-439-1559.