Manchester Memorial Hospital, a 63-bed facility, situated in the middle of the Daniel Boone National Forest, serves more than 40,000 residents of Manchester and surrounding communities with vital healthcare services. More than a dozen physicians and nearly 300 employees care for more than 32,000 patient visits each year, including 18,000 emergency visits. Nearly 300 babies are born here every year.

In this rugged and beautiful land, where Daniel Boone pushed back the frontiers of early America, Memorial Hospital uses some of the latest in healthcare technologies, providing such high-tech services as mammography, CT scans and ultrasound. With the expansion of the emergency and outpatient facilities, and an 16-bed skilled nursing unit, Memorial Hospital is keeping step with the market’s increased demand for these services.

The Gardenview Health Center on the hospital campus houses the Rural Health Clinic comprised of obstetrics, gynecology, pediatric and family practice services. Also on the campus is a HUD 32-unit housing complex for the elderly. Manchester is in Clay County, where the main industry is coal mining. Memorial Hospital was established in this area in 1917 as the Oneida Mountain Hospital. In the 1950s, it was an innovator in home nursing care, taking much-needed medical services directly to the people. Today, Memorial Hospital is the parent organization for a home health agency in Martin County of eastern Kentucky. Memorial Hospital has been at its present location, midway between Lexington, Kentucky and Knoxville, Tennessee, since 1971. Either city offers plenty of shopping, cultural events, recreation and sports activities, within a two-hour drive of Manchester.

Kentucky is a favorite place for tourists who enjoy camping, folk festivals, history or horses. Its abundance of natural beauty is equaled only by its abundance of history and down-home culture. The state ranks fourth nationwide in the number of registered historic sites. Here you can visit the birthplaces of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis, the fort founded by Daniel Boone, the homes of Henry Clay and George Rogers Clark or the mansion which inspired Stephen Foster to write “My Old Kentucky Home.”

For family living, the community of Manchester and Clay County offers a country atmosphere, with easy access to the state’s many attractions. Kentucky is the home and workplace of many professional craftspeople and artists. Numerous shops and galleries, located within an easy drive of Manchester, offer some of the finest handcrafted work to be found anywhere.

Memorial Hospital participates in a number of local events including Clay County Days, a week long community fair, March of Dimes and Cancer Society Walk-a-Thons and other educational and charitable events. Memorial Hospital also co-sponsors an abstinence based program in the local school system and provides CPR classes to the middle and high schools in Clay County. Other health education programs are presented throughout the year to residents of Clay and surrounding counties as well as sponsoring an annual Health Fair.

Manchester’s public schools include nine elementary schools, one middle school, one high school and a private secondary school. In addition, the Seventh-day Adventist Church operates an elementary and high school, several colleges and junior colleges are within a two-hour drive of the hospital. Additionally, both the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University offer selected courses in Manchester.

Anesthesiology,
Auxiliary Volunteers,
Cardiology,
CT Scanner,
Echocardiograms,
Emergency Center,
General Dentistry,
General Surgery,
Gynecology,
Holter Monitoring,
Home Health,
Intensive Care,
Internal Medicine,
Laboratory,
Mammography,
Neurology,
Nursery,
Obstetrics,
Pathology,
Pediatrics,
Pharmacy,
Physical Therapy,
Radiology,
Rural Health Clinic.