AHEC is a collaborative
effort of the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, the
University of Kentucky Medical Center and eight regional centers.
The AHECs work to improve the recruitment, distribution and retention
of health care professionals (particularly in primary care) in medically
underserved areas throughout the state commonwealth.
AHEC
connects the academic health education programs at the University
of Kentucky and the University of Louisville with medically underserved communities throughout the Commonwealth. This
unique university/community partnership brings together educators,
community practitioners, health institutions and agencies along with
health professions students to address Kentucky's
long-standing health care access problems.
