Tri-State Regional Cancer Center

06/16/2025

06/01/2025

Celebrating all cancer survivors today ❤️

05/23/2025

Our office wil be closed on Monday, May 26th. Everyone have a safe weekend.

05/06/2025

Please join us as we celebrate the beginning of a new era at UK King’s Daughters!

We are hosting a Community Open House on Saturday, May 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at our new Main Entrance (Central Avenue and 23rd Street).

The open house offers the public a glimpse at our new 200,000 square foot facility, which will house a new Emergency Department, Imaging Services, Welcome and Information Center, and Patient Registration. The Main Entrance also will be the new hub for getting to your destination on our Ashland campus.

Activities include a tour of our new space, light refreshments and giveaways. We look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday!

05/06/2025

To all nurses, especially ours, THANK YOU!

04/26/2025

This will be a great thing for everyone!

UK King’s Daughters will acquire Tri-State Regional Cancer Center (TSRCC), expanding its oncology services to include radiation therapy.

The acquisition was approved by the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees Healthcare Committee on Thursday and approved by the UK Board of Trustees today, Friday, April 25. It will include the 8,224 sq. ft. facility, located at 706 23rd St., Ashland, and equipment including two lead-lined vaults for radiation therapy and two linear accelerators (medical devices that deliver high-energy radiation to treat cancer). Tri-State Regional Cancer Center radiation oncologists Jeffrey Lopez, M.D., and Terry Justice, M.D., will be employed by King’s Daughters Integrated Practices following the transition.

“We are delighted to welcome Tri-State Regional Cancer Center to King’s Daughters,” King’s Daughters President and Chief Executive Officer Sara Marks said. “While we have always worked closely with TSRCC, this brings long-term surety for the practice, their patients and our community. This will be a significant addition to our oncology program, serving patients who require this important treatment.”

Tri-State Regional Cancer Center has been serving patients since 1985. Dr. Lopez and his wife, Kelly, joined King’s Daughters in 1989 and purchased the practice in 1991. TSRCC has developed exceptional cancer care through collaboration with King’s Daughters and UK HealthCare's Markey Cancer Center. Radiation oncology services are accredited by the American College of Radiology.

“Over the past 36 years it has been our great privilege to work alongside such an outstanding team at Tri-State Regional Cancer Center,” Lopez said. “We are proud to have made a lasting impact in the lives of so many.

“As we join UK King's Daughters, we are confident that the legacy of exceptional care and compassion that defines this center will only grow stronger. We look forward to this exciting next step and continuing to serve our community."

The acquisition is expected to close July 1, 2025. The TSRCC staff and patients should experience a seamless transition and patients will have no changes or interruptions in their care.

04/25/2025

Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital. ❤️

“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar...
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist...
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care...
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor...
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”
—Pope Francis