The Good Samaritan Foundation is a Kentucky health-related philanthropy that financially supports quality health care, health education and research focusing on programs that serve low income and uninsured people in central and southeastern Kentucky.

With a gift to the UK Chandler Medical Center, the foundation established the endowed Good Samaritan Chair and Professorship in Community Health Nursing. The faculty member appointed will work with masters and doctoral students, interns, fellows and staff of the Good Samaritan Nursing Center in the College of Nursing.

"Research activities of the chair holder will be to develop, implement and evaluate programmatic efforts designed to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent diseases for Kentuckians who have limited access to primary health care," said Carolyn A. Williams, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., dean of the College.

Marcia K. Stanhope, D.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N.

Marcia K. Stanhope, D.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N., was first appointed to the faculty of the College as an associate professor in 1981. Through the years she has provided consistent and strong leadership in a variety of roles, including director of the Division of Community Health Nursing and Administration from 1985 to 1996 and most recently as associate dean of the College, co-director of the College’s new Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) program, and director of continuing education. She is also the founding director of the Good Samaritan Nursing Center.

In addition to her teaching and administrative roles, she has numerous publications and is internationally known as the editor of the leading textbook in community health nursing, Stanhope and Lancaster’s Community and Public Health Nursing, used throughout the world. In 2000 she was the recipient of the Creative Achievement Award given by the Public Health Nursing Section of the American Public Health Association.

Stanhope earned a Diploma in Nursing from Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, a B.S.N. from UK, an M.S.N. from Emory University and a D.S.N. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

For more than a decade, Stanhope has provided leadership in working with the Good Samaritan Foundation on a number of community-based projects designed to provide health education and improved access to health care and health promotion services for vulnerable populations and to provide meaningful learning opportunities for students and new graduates of the College’s baccalaureate and master’s programs.