Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) Chairman, President and CEO Donovan Blackburn was on hand Friday, April 12th, for a ceremonial bill signing of Senator Phillip Wheelerās Senate Bill 280. SB 280 successfully created the Kentucky Medicaid Assistance Program (KMAP), which will be revolutionary for Kentucky residentsā access to quality care and will bolster Kentuckyās rural hospitals.
A hospital bears the duty of saving the lives of those living in the community it serves. To do this, it must prioritize patient safety and healing and be constantly mindful of how employees can improve their performance of daily tasks. Achieving excellence in patient safety and performance improvement requires a committed, holistic approach that
Pikeville Medical Center (PMC), nestled in the heart of Eastern Kentucky’s coal fields, proudly announces it is the recipient of a grant from Kosair for Kids to establish a multi-sensory stimulation area within the Pediatric Outpatient Therapy Center. This transformative initiative aims to bolster therapeutic care for pediatric patients in a region marked by health
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a time set aside to focus on the third most common cancer worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths each year in the United States. Colorectal cancer is known in the medical community as the āsilent killerā because of its lack of symptoms. Too often, colon cancer
