Dr. Franke comes to Lourdes from Jennie Stuart Medical Group in Hopkinsville where she served as the director of Urinary Incontinence and president of the Jennie Stuart Medical Staff.
Dr. Franke is board certified by the American Board of Urology. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Urologic Association, the Kentucky Urological Association, the Vanderbilt Urology Society and the H. William Scott, Jr. Society. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Medical School.
Her primary responsibilities include providing physician executive leadership for regional clinical enterprises, including medical staff, acute care delivery, Mercy Health Physicians, and Mercy Health Select. She will align and lead both employed and independent physicians across the region with direct responsibility in establishing and managing clinically integrated networks, setting the physician strategy, and recruiting physician practice management.
Dr. Franke will have oversight for Mercy Health's Kentucky region, which includes Lourdes Hospital in Paducah and Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital in Irvine, KY.
