Day: November 2, 2012
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Cardiologist: Kentucky needs better way to get heart attack patients to dedicated catheterization centers in time
Because cardiovascular disease kills more Kentuckians than anything else, and because what mostly kills them is a heart attack, and because if you can get help within 90 minutes of...
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Franklin County health department lays off 5; blames Medicaid managed health claim denials for budget shortfalls
The Franklin County Health Department has laid off five employees effective today, four of those are part-time workers. The layoffs are being made in the midst of a $1.7 million...
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Study: Smoke-free workplace leads to fewer heart attacks
Mayo Clinic researchers have found a 33 percent drop in heart attack rates in a Minnesota county after public smoking bans were enacted. This, while rates of hypertension, diabetes, high...
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Passport Health claims state violated bidding process and will make Medicaid overpayments in Jefferson County as a result
Passport Health Plan has charged that the state of Kentucky has violated its own bidding process and will spend as much as $80 million more than necessary per year under...
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Baptist Health buys Trover Health in Western Kentucky, making Baptist Kentucky’s largest health-care provider by licensed beds
Following the nationwide trend of large hospitals taking over smaller ones in light of health care reform demands in a slow economy, Louisville-based Baptist Health added an eighth hospital to...