Remote Area Medical Health Expedition

RAM Is Coming To Knott County!

The Remote Area Medical (RAM) Health Expedition is coming to the Knott County Sportsplex on December 6 & 7! Registration will begin at 6:00am each day. All services will be provided on a first come, first served basis.

All medical services performed by RAM are FREE! Services are available to adults and children including:

  • Dental: Cleanings, Fillings, and Extractions
  • Eye Care: Complete Eye Exams, Prescription Glasses
  • Medical: Specialists, Bone Density, Blood Work, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Pulmonary Functions, Medication Assistance, Cancer Screenings, and More

These services are provided for the uninsured, underinsured, unemployed and those who cannot afford to pay. Services for children and adults will be provided by volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, opthalmologists, optometrists, dental hygienists, nurse practicioners and other trained health care professionals.

For more information on services or to volunteer time, medical services, or food please call the KRADD Office at 606-436-3158.

What is RAM?

The vision for Remote Area Medical® developed in the Amazon rain forest where founder Stan Brock spent 15 years with the Wapishana Indians. He lived with the pain and suffering created by isolation from medical care. He witnessed the near devastation of whole tribes by what would have been simple or minor illnesses to more advanced cultures. When he left South America to co-star in the television series, "Wild Kingdom, " he vowed to find a way to deliver basic medical aid to people in the world's inaccessible regions.

The organization was founded in 1985 and years of research and planning yielded a vast, carefully developed network of men and women who have come together to make RAM a highly mobile, remarkably efficient relief force. Volunteers are doctors, nurses, technicians, and veterinarians who go on expeditions at their own expense and treat hundreds of patients a day under some of the worst conditions.

Volunteers have provided general medical, surgical, eye, dental, and veterinary care to tens of thousands of people and animals, with 60% of the expeditions serving rural America. There are plans for expansion of US expeditions, an airborne medical treatment center, a permanent clinic site in Guyana, and a program start-up in Africa.

And...there are dreams. Dreams for a comprehensive center of operations.Dreams for learning the medicinal secrets of the rain forest while teaching a continent how -- and why -- to save it. Dreams for a flying hospital. Dreams of a world where people help each other just because they can.

On March 3 2004, the Senate at the state capitol in Nashville Tennessee passed a resolution honoring Remote Area Medical® for "Compassion and Dedication to providing medical care." Founder Stan Brock is shown here with Governor Phil Bredesen with the award.

Directions from Lexington, KY

  1. Merge onto I-64 E / I-75 S via the ramp on the LEFT toward KNOXVILLE / ASHLAND for 2.3 miles
  2. Keep LEFT to take I-64 E via EXIT 111 toward WINCHESTER / ASHLAND for 16.4 miles
  3. Merge onto BERT T COMBS MOUNTAIN PKWY E via EXIT 98 toward CAMPTON / PRESTONSBURG for 42.6 miles
  4. Merge onto HAZARD RD / KY-15-SPUR / MOUNTAIN PKWY via EXIT 43 toward KY-15 / CAMPTON for 1.2 miles
  5. HAZARD RD / KY-15-SPUR / MOUNTAIN PKWY becomes KY-15 for 47.0 miles
  6. Merge onto KY-80 E via the ramp on the LEFT for 21.8 miles
  7. Turn RIGHT onto CHESTNUT RIDGE DR for 0.2 mile
  8. Turn RIGHT onto KENNY CHAMPION LOOP for 0.5 mile

Directions from London, KY

  1. Turn RIGHT onto W DANIEL BOONE PKWY for 1.6 miles
  2. W DANIEL BOONE PKWY becomes HAL ROGERS PKWY for 55.2 miles
  3. HAL ROGERS PKWY becomes KY-80 for 21.8 miles
  4. Turn RIGHT onto CHESTNUT RIDGE DR for 0.2 mile
  5. Turn RIGHT onto KENNY CHAMPION LOOP for 0.5 mile

Directions from Huntington, WV

  1. Merge onto I-64 W toward ASHLAND (Crossing into KENTUCKY) for 8.7 miles
  2. Take the US-23 exit- EXIT 191- toward LOUISA / ASHLAND for 0.2 miles
  3. Take the ramp toward LOUISA for 0.1 miles
  4. Turn LEFT onto US-23 S for 65.6 miles
  5. Merge onto KY-80 W for 20.7 miles
  6. Turn LEFT onto CHESTNUT RIDGE DR for 0.2 mile
  7. Turn RIGHT onto KENNY CHAMPION LOOP for 0.5 mile

Directions from Norton, VA

  1. Merge onto US-23 N toward WISE / JENKINS KY. (Crossing into KENTUCKY) for 19.1 miles
  2. Turn LEFT onto ramp for 0.3 miles
  3. Merge onto US-119 for 10.4 miles
  4. Stay STRAIGHT to go onto KY-15 for 2.2 miles
  5. Turn LEFT onto KY-15 / KY-931. Continue to follow KY-15 for 12.9 miles
  6. Turn RIGHT onto KY-160 for 10.9 miles
  7. KY-160 becomes KY-550 for 0.1 miles
  8. Turn LEFT to continue onto KY-160 for 1.4 miles
  9. Turn RIGHT onto KY-80 E for 5.8 miles
  10. Turn LEFT onto CHESTNUT RIDGE DR for 0.2 mile
  11. Turn RIGHT onto KENNY CHAMPION LOOP for 0.5 mile
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