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Kentucky Homeplace Awards and Recognition

2008

Received the National Rural Health Association’s Outstanding Rural Health Program award, which recognizes a community, regional or statewide program that facilitates the development of rural health delivery systems.

2007

Kentucky Homeplace received Health Kentucky’s annual Advocacy Award.

2005

Kentucky Homeplace was one of 13 programs selected as ‘Models that Work’ by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. The programs were featured on Kentucky Educational Television’s ‘Be Well Kentucky’ series.

Feltner’s research note, “Kentucky Homeplace Defeat Diabetes Screening Test: An Analysis of Rural Kentucky’s Challenge to Overcome the Growing Diabetes Epidemic,” was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association.

2004

Feltner received the University of Kentucky’s A. Paul Nestor Creativity Award in recognition of her fiscally efficient management. She also testified for the first of what became multiple occasions before congressional subcommittees in support of federal patient navigation bills.

2003

The program’s director, Fran Feltner, M.S.N., RN, was honored with the Southern Health Association’s Charles G. Jordan Memorial Award “in recognition of (her) contributions to public health.”

The Southeast Kentucky Community Access Program, a spin-off of Kentucky Homeplace, was one of eight initial winners of the Innovations in Prevention Award, given by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

2002

Received the Kentucky Public Health Association’s Group Award "in recognition of valuable services in community health."

2001

Kentucky Homeplace’s orientation toward the provision of culturally appropriate health services was documented in a case study in the National Rural Health Association’s peer-reviewed Journal of Rural Health.

The program was a semifinalist for Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government “Innovations in American Government” award.

1994

The program was established by the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health and funded by the Kentucky General Assembly to address health disparities in rural portions of the state.