Month: September 2018
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State’s new health commissioner, Dr. Jeffrey Howard, is called ‘a breath of fresh air’ by a local director who’s seen six of them
Commissioner Jeffrey Howard talks with Kentucky Health News reporter Melissa Patrick. (Photo by state spokesman Doug Hogan) By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky’s recently installed health...
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260 in Morehead hear speakers on opioid recovery and solutions to the epidemic: rebuilding communities and long-term treatment
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Treating opioid-use disorder as a chronic disease, finding local solutions and restoring communities were the overarching themes of an event in Morehead Sept. 5...
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Veteran of Medicaid in several states named commissioner in Ky.; health cabinet creates new post to deal with health-care providers
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Serviceshas named Carol H. Steckel commissioner of the Department of Medicaid Services. Steckel is a Medicaid and managed-care expert with more than two decades of...
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Baptist Health names Dr. Jody Prather chief strategy officer
Baptist Health, Kentucky’s largest hospital company, has named Dr. Jody Prather of Elizabethtown its chief strategy officer, a job in which he will work with other executives “to create strategic...
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Sept. 18 webinar will explore why rural areas lag in getting children a vaccine that can prevent a major type of cancer
The Rural Health Information Hub will hold a webinar to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s recent report showing that rural teens are less likely than their urban peers to know about the human papilloma...
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U of L seeks nominations for award for Ky., S. Ind. nurses
Monday, Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. is the deadline to nominate outstanding nurses from Kentucky and Southern Indiana for the fifth annual Florence Nightingale Awards in Nursing, presented by the University of...
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At first SOAR summit session only about health, speakers agree local cooperation is needed to address Appalachia’s health issues
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News PIKEVILLE, Ky. – From top to bottom of the health-care system, speakers agreed local cooperation is essential to improving health in Appalachian Kentucky. They...
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Kentucky has very high rate of addicted mothers; rose by double-digit percentages early in decade, seemed to level off in 2015-16
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky has had a very high rate of opioid-use disorder among women delivering babies in hospitals, according to a study published...
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State health official says Ky. is considering cutting nearly 500,000 people off of Medicaid because of a $300 million program shortfall
Health officials said the state is considering eliminating Medicaid coverage to almost 500,000 Kentuckians because the program is facing a nearly $300 million shortfall. During a review of the 2018...
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Grant program for children’s health enters final year; foundation plans to create a video and report to share with other communities
As a $3 million Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky grant program that focuses on children’s health moves into its fifth and final year, the foundation says it will conduct the final evaluations...