Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center (EMRMC) is a locally controlled not-for-profit 222-bed hospital located in Danville, Kentucky.

EMRMC took its name from Ephraim McDowell, a ground-breaking local physician who performed the first ovariotomy in the United States in 1809.

It marked its centennial in 1987 by changing its name to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center.

[3] Thomson Reuters named EMRMC among its top 100 Performance Improvement Leaders.

About 3,000 hospitals across the country were evaluated on analysis of data provided from public sources such as Medicaid and Medicare from a five-year period between 2001 and 2005.