Area business and government officials were on hand Monday for the official reopening of the Baptist Health Medical Group Family Medicine Facility in Radcliff.
Baptist Health says the facility, located at 1679 North Wilson Road just outside the Fort Knox Wilson Gate, will provide patients with primary care, behavioral health care, and connections to social services.
Baptist Health Hardin President and CEO Rob Ramey said the facility has been several years in the making, the product of several conversations about how to best serve the community’s healthcare needs.
“Primary care is wonderful,” Ramey said. “We have to have the foundation of primary care for our community, but we need to support that more effectively, so the vision here was how do we add behavioral health for our community as well? How do we add a licensed clinical social worker so that he or she can help patients navigate the complex realities of healthcare and try to find the resources and the services that are available to truly help them improve their health and continue on that journey?”
The project was made possible by the financial support of Abound Credit Union. Abound President and CEO Ray Springsteen said Abound began working with entities such as Baptist Health Hardin and officials like Kentucky Second District Congressman Brett Guthrie on the facility as they saw a natural link between financial health and physical health.
“Whenever you’re looking to have problems to solve, you need great partners,” Springsteen said. “One of the things that I love about the community that I live in is that when we want to try to figure something out, we come together. You need great teams for that. I think that’s exactly what we found with Baptist Health, and certainly with Congressman Guthrie, and finding ways to support this.”
Contact Baptist Health Hardin for more information on the family medicine facility.
