The Southern Ohio Health Care Network
The Southern Ohio Health Care Network is a consortium of health care providers serving a population of two million across 34 rural counties. It covers 17,000 square miles of southeast Ohio. The SOHCN was formed in 2007 through the collaboration of Adena Health System in Chillicothe, O’Bleness Health System in Athens and Holzer Health Systems in Gallipolis, as an effort to bring greater health care access to southern Ohio’s Appalachian counties. The SOHCN service area includes the ten poorest counties in Ohio and all counties designated "distressed" and "at-risk" by the Appalachian Regional Commission. Federal health care designations blanketing the SOHCN region include Health Professional Shortage Areas, a dozen Critical Access Hospitals, and over 40 Federally Qualified Health Centers.
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News & Updates
June 10, 2009
The Southern Ohio Health Care Network announced the award of an $18 million FCC-funded contract to Horizon Telcom for construction of a state-of-the-art fiber optic network across thirteen counties in southern Ohio.
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Connecting Appalachia
Buoyed by the benefit of strong public-private partnerships, the project looks to provide metropolitan-class broadband coverage to all of Appalachian Ohio, encompassing a 34-county area centered in Southeast Ohio. Learn more...