Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky

Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky is located at 101 Town and Country Lane in Hazard, Kentucky — a comprehensive primary care center providing federally supported health services in the seat of Perry County in the Appalachian coalfield region of eastern Kentucky. Hazard is a city of approximately 5,000 residents and the commercial, civic, and healthcare hub of Perry County, positioned in the North Fork of the Kentucky River valley in the central Appalachian mountains. Perry County has been among the most economically distressed counties in the United States throughout the post-coal transition era, with poverty rates, unemployment, and health outcome measures substantially worse than Kentucky state averages and national averages. Town and Country Lane in Hazard is a commercial street, and 101 Town and Country Lane places the Primary Care Centers facility in an accessible location in the Hazard commercial zone that serves the county's dispersed rural and town population. Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky is an FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center) network — federally designated community health centers that receive Section 330 funding to provide comprehensive primary care, dental care, behavioral health, and enabling services for underserved populations in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian counties. FQHC status enables sliding-fee-scale dental services adjusted to patient income and family size.

Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky provides comprehensive primary care, dental services, and behavioral health services for uninsured, Medicaid, and low-income patients in Perry County and the surrounding eastern Kentucky Appalachian region. Dental services at Primary Care Centers locations include preventive dental care — examinations, professional cleanings, dental radiographs, and fluoride treatments — restorative procedures for tooth-colored fillings and basic restorations, dental extractions for symptomatic or unrestorable teeth, and emergency dental treatment for acute dental conditions. Perry County's dental access landscape reflects the broader eastern Kentucky pattern of limited private-sector dental practices and substantial unmet dental health need in a population with elevated rates of oral disease attributable to socioeconomic factors, tobacco use, and food security challenges. The MCHC Whitesburg Medical/Dental Clinic in Whitesburg (Letcher County) and Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky in Hazard (Perry County) represent adjacent county FQHC dental access resources in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian dental safety net.

Town and Country Lane's Hazard position provides access from US-15 and KY-15 running through the Perry County valley system, from the Mountain Parkway connecting Hazard to Lexington approximately 80 miles west, and from the community health access infrastructure of the North Fork of the Kentucky River corridor. Hazard's Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) hospital campus provides the broader medical specialist infrastructure of the eastern Kentucky mountain region.

For Perry County and eastern Kentucky Appalachian patients seeking sliding-fee-scale primary and dental care in Hazard, Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky at 101 Town and Country Lane provides FQHC-model comprehensive healthcare at the commercial hub of the Kentucky River valley's Perry County coal country.