‘We don’t turn anyone away.’ Eastern Kentucky clinic may become health care model
By Linda Blackford, Herald-Leader
Updated November 11, 2025 11:22 AM
Dr. Edward Roberts founded the Post Clinic in 1996 because he wanted to help patients with free health care in Mount Sterling. Linda Blackford
Inside Mount Sterling’s city limits, past the food pantry and vast Victorian piles on Main Street, there’s a quiet street with a brick building with a small sign that says simply: “Post Clinic.” But inside the nondescript building, medical personnel are hard at work filling cavities, making X-rays and diagnosing such Kentucky ailments as high blood pressure and diabetes. But money never exchanges hands. Since its founding in 1996, the Post Clinic has lived up to its founders’ desire to help people get medical care for free.
Drs. Ellen and Edward Roberts, both had practices in Mount Sterling, but wanted to do more for patients who couldn’t afford their regular services.
“Medical debt is the greatest driver of bankruptcy in Kentucky,” Edward Roberts said recently as he gave a tour of the clinic wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with “Single Payer Health Care.”