Pikeville Medical Center offers trauma care 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Led by surgeons Dr. Aaron Brown and Dr. Rudy Judhan, PMC’s trauma team is comprised of experienced professionals in trauma, the emergency department, neurosurgery, orthopedic trauma, critical care, interventional radiology and local emergency transportation services.
In 2015, PMC achieved accreditation as Kentucky’s only Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons(ACS), a scientific and educational association that improves the quality of care for surgical patients.
As a verified Trauma Center, PMC is equipped and staffed to provide comprehensive emergency care to patients suffering traumatic injuries caused by vehicle crashes, gunshots, assaults, falls or other incidents. The spectrum of care encompasses the pre-hospital phase through the rehabilitation process.
For more information about PMC’s trauma services and our community outreach initiatives, contact Sandy Tackett, trauma program director, at 606-218-3586 or Angie Reed, trauma outreach and injury prevention coordinator, at 606-218-6334
Travis Pigg, of Robinson Creek, is a real traumatic success story from Pikeville Medical Center (PMC). Pigg was working deep in the coal mines and was injured by a shuttle car transporting coal. Pigg was seven miles into the mine and about 360 feet underground when he was injured. “I went to work that day
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The summer of 2016 started out as a fun and exciting time for Kara Kennedy. She had just completed her first year of nursing school and had several activities planned with her new boyfriend, Dalton Parker. “I was truly the happiest I had been in an extensive amount of time,” Kennedy said. “Our summer break
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