For
Immediate Release
August 9, 2002
Contact: Terry Sebastian or Channell Barbour (502) 564-2611
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FRANKFORT,
KY – Gov. Paul Patton signed an administrative regulation today amending the
current state health plan, which would permit a diagnostic and outpatient
medical facility to be built in Bullitt County. Patton’s action is based upon
a determination by the Cabinet for Health Services that Bullitt County is a
medically underserved area.
State
Rep. Larry Belcher, D-Shepherdsville, along with Bullitt County Judge-Executive
Kenneth Rigdon and Third District Magistrate Dewey McClean, recently asked Gov.
Patton to amend the state health plan that would allow the facility since
Belcher’s measure failed to pass the legislature during the 2002 General
Assembly.
During
a meeting with Rep Belcher, Gov. Patton told Belcher and the local officials
that he would ask the Cabinet for Health Services to consider their request.
“On the face of it, it would appear Bullitt County is severely underserved in
medical services, and this appears to be a reasonable request.”
The
diagnostic center would provide ambulatory surgery services, primary care
services, twenty-four hour emergency services, diagnostic imagining and MRIs.
The change in the health plan will permit providers to submit applications for
approval by the Cabinet for construction of the center.
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