Day: January 24, 2011
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Williams says he supports a statewide smoking ban
State Senate President David Williams expressed firm support for the proposed statewide smoking ban at the Kentucky Press Association‘s forum for gubernatorial candidates in Louisville Friday. “Secondhand smoke is full of...
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Poor conditions found at Letcher County personal-care home
State inspectors found pitiable conditions when they visited Golden Years Rest Home, right, in Letcher County in December, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Beth Musgrave and Valarie Honeycutt-Spears report. Kool-Aid dripping on...
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Federal grant will help build assisted-living and hospice facility in Maysville
Gov. Steve Beshear presented a $800,000 community development block grant (federal money administered by the states) for the construction of a Maysville assisted-living facility and hospice inpatient facility Friday, The Ledger Independent...
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Legislator wants to make hospitals, health care facilities report infections acquired by patients under their care
In the face of strong opposition from Kentucky hospitals, a Democratic legislator has filed a bill that would require all health-care facilities to report the incidence of infections acquired by patients...