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The Kentucky Homeplace program, which helps rural residents get prescription drugs and other medical supplies, won't be ending its services in some counties after all.
The Department of Public Health, which provides the program's $1.9 million budget, is no longer cutting $80,000 from the program, as had been announced.
However, the restoration doesn't mean the program will be able to offer the same services as last year, said Fran Feltner, director of the lay health worker division at the University of Kentucky, which runs the program.
In Fulton, Hickman and Jackson counties, the offices will be open 75 percent of the time. In Warren County, the program will operate one to two days a week. Feltner hopes to “piece together ways” of covering offices in the northeast region.
Altogether, Kentucky Homeplace has programs in 51 counties.
Last year, the program helped people access $27 million in prescription drugs and $2.6 million in medical supplies, such as eyeglasses, wheelchairs and hearing aids.
The program can't operate the offices full time because of rising gas prices and other expenses, officials said. Kentucky Homeplace has not had an increase in funding since it began 14 years ago, Feltner said.
