'These Children Need Us' - Diabetes Center Helps Young Patients in Hard-to-Reach Communities

Families traveling from these Eastern Kentucky communities would need, at a minimum, four hours of travel time to get to Lexington and back home. And that’s just the time they'd be spending in their vehicle. "It can be a real burden on families to get here to Lexington, and then their child goes years without having a follow-up," said diabetes educator Angela Hepner.

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