UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center

UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center is located at 750 Morton Boulevard in Hazard, Kentucky — a University of Kentucky-affiliated community health center providing primary care and dental services for the residents of Perry County in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian coalfield region. Morton Boulevard in Hazard is a commercial street in the county seat of Perry County, and 750 Morton Boulevard places the UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center in the commercial healthcare infrastructure of the Hazard community. Hazard is the seat of Perry County — a city of approximately 5,000 residents in the North Fork Kentucky River watershed of the central Appalachian coalfield — and serves as the healthcare hub for the surrounding Perry, Breathitt, Leslie, Knott, and Letcher county communities of central eastern Kentucky. The "North Fork Valley" name refers to the North Fork of the Kentucky River, which flows through Hazard and gives the broader geographic region its name. "Community Health Center" indicates a federally qualified health center (FQHC) or FQHC-look-alike model — a healthcare organization providing primary care, dental care, behavioral health, and pharmacy services to underserved populations on a sliding-fee-scale basis, with funding from HRSA's 330 grant program. The UK affiliation signals a partnership or management relationship with the University of Kentucky's medical and health sciences programs. Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky at an address in the same Hazard community provides additional FQHC-type community health services in the Perry County market.

UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center provides primary care and dental services for patients in Hazard, Perry County, and the surrounding eastern Kentucky communities. Dental services offered at FQHC-model community health centers typically include comprehensive oral examinations, professional dental cleanings, dental radiographs, restorative procedures (fillings and extractions), denture services, and emergency dental access — with a sliding-fee-scale payment model based on household income that makes dental care financially accessible for uninsured and underinsured patients in this economically disadvantaged Appalachian community. Perry County's persistent economic challenges — high unemployment, low median income, and limited healthcare access outside the Hazard hub — make FQHC-model dental care critical for the community's oral health. Contact the UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center directly for current service hours, eligibility requirements, and appointment scheduling.

Morton Boulevard's Hazard position provides access from US-15's Hazard corridor (the main north-south highway through Perry County connecting Hazard to I-64 at Campton/Beattyville and to Pikeville in Pike County), from the Daniel Boone Parkway connecting Hazard to the I-75 corridor, and from the communities of surrounding Perry, Breathitt, and Leslie counties. UK HealthCare in Lexington is approximately 100 miles west via the Mountain Parkway for Perry County patients requiring tertiary specialty care.

For Hazard, Perry County, and eastern Kentucky Appalachian communities seeking affordable primary care and dental services, UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center at 750 Morton Boulevard provides UK-affiliated FQHC-model healthcare access in the North Fork Valley of eastern Kentucky.