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AHEC (Area Health Education Center)-a regional, state, and national network for better rural health

At the Purchase Area Health Education Center (AHEC), we bring people together for the purpose of fostering, engaging, developing and sustaining the health care needs of our region. The AHEC system is comprised of a regional, state, and national network designed to carry out the overarching mission for developing, promoting and sustaining the healthcare workforce in rural areas by Connecting Students to Careers, Professionals to Communities and Communities to Better Health. Missy Stokes- Center Director
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Shanna Burgess- Outreach Coordinator
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Anne Hess- Health Career Coordinator
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Mallory Graves- Health Career Coordinator & Nursing
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Janeen Winters- Clinical Education Coordinator
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Jessie Arnold - Administrative Assistant
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11/11/2026

Purchase AHEC hosted our Hands-On Health Career Fair event for 8th grade students in the region this past Friday!

8 schools came out and were able to learn about an array of careers in the health care industry such as nursing, PT/PTA, respiratory therapy, public health, nutrition/dietetics, radiography, occupational therapy, surgical technician, cardiology, speech-language pathology, and dental!

We want to thank our presenters for all of their time put into this event and our schools for coming out, we were able to reach 200 plus students!!! We look forward to continuing to grow this event.

10/28/2026

Another day, another year of CHARGE!

Tonight we had our CHARGE High School Nursing Pipeline Program orientation with 15 students being able to make it and 20 accepted!

Thank you Dr. Kuiper from WKCTC nursing for talking about the impact nursing has and sharing some crazy stories!

Can’t wait to see what these students achieve this year 🩺

09/28/2026

We welcomed our next AHEC Scholars cohort last Thursday. At orientation, students got some useful hiring tips from our Board Chair, Mike Muscarella, and got to see what all they will be doing this upcoming year. We are so excited to have another great group of students!

09/21/2026

Deadline to apply has been extended to THIS FRIDAY 9/25!!

Scan the QR code to apply, don’t miss out on this opportunity!!🩺

09/12/2026

We were out in Trigg County today partnering with Raising Hope KY, KY HEARS, and Wildcat Chevrolet Cadiz, Kentucky to provide free blood pressure checks, hearing screenings, Stop the Bleed and hands-only CPR today.

Thank you Murray State University College of Nursing & Health Sciences for always supporting what we do and for letting us borrow a nursing student for the day to assist with the screenings. 🩺💙💛

09/11/2026

Today is the last day to apply to our AHEC Scholars program. If you are interested, take the change while you still can to apply to this amazing opportunity!

Here is the link for the application: https://forms.gle/hj72TK3ujnziEeYv6

09/10/2026

We’ve been spotted!! Our office was so happy to participate in SPARK again this year! Even Murray Independent School District’s Superintendent David Meinschein and one of our Advisory Board members, Whitney York, came by to try out our laparoscopic surgery simulations! We were so glad to have both Murray and Calloway students come see us today!

09/09/2026

Calling middle schools in the Purchase Area! 🚨

The Hands-On Health Career Fair for 8th grade students will be on Friday November 6th, 2026. This event showcases different health careers in a hands-on way! If your middle school has students interested, please reach out to Mallory at [email protected].

09/04/2026

There's one week left for you to apply to our AHEC Scholars program. If you are a healthcare students, take advantage of this amazing opportunity to better prepare you for the workforce!

Here is the link for the application: https://forms.gle/hj72TK3ujnziEeYv6

09/03/2026

This is a friendly reminder and your sign to apply to the CHARGE Nursing Pipeline Program for High School students if you haven’t!

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity, scan the QR code to apply! 🩺

Address

227 Wells Hall
Murray, KY
42071

Telephone

+12708094135

Website

https://www.murraystate.edu/academics/CollegesDepartments/nursing-and-health-professions/AHEC/index.html

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