The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allocated a total of $3 million across eight organizations in Kentucky to fight the substance abuse "epidemic" in rural communities, according to an Aug. 23 report from Spectrum News 1.
Paducah-based Purchase District Health Department, Corbin-based Kentucky Rural Health Information Technology Network, Prestonsburg-based Mountain Comprehensive Care Center, Morehead-based St. Claire Medical Center and Richmond-based Kentucky River Foothills Development Council all received $300,000 through the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program.
Through the RCORP Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome program, Hazard-based Kentucky River Community Care and Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville received $500,000, and Edgewood-based St. Elizabeth Medical Center received $395,129, according to the report.