Bluegrass Care Clinic

More About the BCC

Since 1990, the University of Kentucky Division of Infectious Diseases has provided a continuum of HIV primary care from diagnosis to end of life to over 1,000 persons from central and eastern Kentucky. A team of physicians, recognized for their treatment of HIV disease and board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty certification in Infectious Diseases, staffs the Bluegrass Care Clinic. In addition to providing patient care, these physicians are actively engaged in HIV teaching, training, and research, and serve as co-investigators for all University of Kentucky HIV clinical trials.

The Bluegrass Care Clinic serves as one of four federally funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS Clinics within the state of Kentucky. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, enacted in 1990, amended in 1996, reauthorized in 2006 and 2009, was named for Ryan White, an Indiana teenager, in honor of his public struggle against AIDS-related discrimination.

The CARE Act is intended to help communities and States address unmet health needs of people living with HIV/AIDS by increasing the availability of primary care and support services. Goals of the CARE Act are to reduce more costly inpatient care, increase access to care for underserved populations, and to improve the quality of life of those living with HIV/AIDS.

Programs under the CARE Act are administered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). For more information about the Ryan White CARE Act click here.

Those that have come before you have created opportunity so that services may be offered to you at little or no cost. Research is continuing, medications are emerging, and education and understanding are evolving.