Mountain Comprehensive Health

Mountain Comprehensive Health is located at 226 Medical Plaza Lane in Whitesburg, Kentucky — the Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation (MCHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) parent organization operating at the same Medical Plaza Lane campus as the MCHC Whitesburg Medical/Dental Clinic at the same 226 Medical Plaza Lane address in Letcher County. Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation is the parent FQHC organization of which the MCHC Whitesburg Medical/Dental Clinic is a component service — the two listings at the same address reflect the organizational parent (Mountain Comprehensive Health) and the specific medical/dental clinic it operates. Whitesburg is the county seat of Letcher County, a deeply rural Appalachian county in the Pine Mountain range of southeastern Kentucky, and the Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation serves as the primary comprehensive primary care organization for this economically distressed coalfield community. MCHC's FQHC status funds comprehensive primary care — primary medical, dental, behavioral health, and social support services — under the federal Section 330 Health Center Program, with sliding-fee scale payment options that allow Letcher County patients to receive dental and medical care at income-adjusted costs from zero to the full fee schedule.

Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation provides integrated primary care, dental services, behavioral health services, and health support programs for uninsured, Medicaid, and low-income patients in Letcher County and the surrounding eastern Kentucky Appalachian counties. The MCHC dental program — operated as the MCHC Whitesburg Medical/Dental Clinic at the same 226 Medical Plaza Lane campus — provides preventive dental care, basic restorative services, and emergency dental treatment for Letcher County patients. MCHC's mission reflects the FQHC model's commitment to serving the "medically underserved" — a federal designation applied to communities where poverty, geographic isolation, and commercial healthcare market failures create significant gaps in primary care and dental access. Letcher County's Appalachian context includes the long-term economic displacement caused by coal industry decline and the associated challenges of poverty, substance use, and limited educational and employment opportunity that compound healthcare access barriers.

Medical Plaza Lane's Whitesburg position provides access from U.S. Route 119 (the primary corridor of Letcher County running north to Hazard) and from the Virginia state line communities just east of Whitesburg. The MCHC network extends to multiple locations in eastern Kentucky, providing federally supported health access across the mountain counties of the Kentucky Appalachian region.

For Letcher County and eastern Kentucky mountain patients seeking federally supported primary and dental care, Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation at 226 Medical Plaza Lane — the same campus as MCHC Whitesburg Medical/Dental Clinic — provides FQHC-model comprehensive health services in the Whitesburg community.