LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Parents, patients and providers are heartbroken and angry after finding out that the only facility in Kentucky that provides for hundreds of the state’s most vulnerable is seeing its funding gutted.
Lee Specialty Clinic provides a holistic approach to healthcare for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The clinic’s services run the gamut, with primary, dental, mental, behavioral, therapeutic care and more.
Providers at Lee Specialty Clinic were told Thursday afternoon that most of them would be out of a job. However, for them, that pales in comparison to what their patients will be left with, or rather, left without.
80% of the budget that keeps the clinic’s doors open has been cut by the state. Elizabeth Fischer with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services said the General Assembly slashed “the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental, and Intellectual Disabilities’ (DBHDID) budget by 4% in State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2027 and 7% in SFY28, forcing a $4.5 million total reduction for the Lee Specialty Clinic, which serves both the residents of Bingham Gardens Intermediate Care Facility and those with intellectual disabilities in the community.”
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Source: WAVE3; https://www.wave3.com/2026/06/13/whos-going-care-them-millions-cuts-clinic-serving-kentuckys-most-vulnerable/