Interview with Barkley Moore, October 26, 1978

Interview Summary

Barkley Moore discusses the Oneida Baptist Institute and the maternity hospital associated with it. He also tells of a community doctor making rounds on horseback before the health care facility was established. For a time the medical work of the hospital was administered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with doctors being rotated from the University of Louisville. In 1954 the state government withdrew, and Moore details the difficulty of locating an organization to run the facility. After a period in which the Seventh Day Adventist Church administered the hospital, the FNS took over its operation for a time. Moore comments upon the nursing clinic staffed and maintained by FNS personnel. He gives details of the relationships among the school, the community, and the FNS.

Interview Keyword

Children--Health and hygiene--Kentucky Nursing Oneida Baptist Institute (Ky.) Rural health services University of Louisville Women's hospitals

Interview LC Subject

Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. Hospitals--Economic aspects--United States Medical care--Appalachian Region Medical centers--Planning

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