Interview with Frank Butler, May 8, 1986
Project: University of Kentucky Medical Center Oral History Project
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Frank Butler (Vice President for Medical Center Operations, UK Chandler Medical Center, 1980-2004) was the director of the University hospital, and discusses the general philosophy of the hospital, specifically in regard to indigent care. He continues to talk about structural problems in the management of a hospital, and recent and future changes in health care. He finally discusses the impact of governmental policy on health care providers, and ponders possible changes in the health care system.Interview Accession
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Academic medical centers--Kentucky--Lexington Butler, Frank, 1942- Butler, Frank, 1942- --Interviews Health facilities--Kentucky--Lexington Health maintenance organizations Hospitals--Administration Kentucky--Politics and government Kentucky. General Assembly. Commission on Financing Health Care for the Medically Indigent Medical care, Cost of Medicine--Kentucky--Lexington Physicians--Kentucky--Lexington Sports medicine University of Kentucky University of Kentucky. Medical CenterInterview Rights
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Butler, Frank Interview by Richard C. Smoot. 08 May. 1986. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Butler, F. (1986, May 08). Interview by R. C. Smoot. University of Kentucky Medical Center Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Butler, Frank, interview by Richard C. Smoot. May 08, 1986, University of Kentucky Medical Center Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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