Month: December 2020
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Work on successful lawsuit against changes in Medicaid earns Rich Seckel a Kentucky Healthy Policy Champion award
Rich Seckel —– The point man in a lawsuit that blocked changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program has been honored for his work by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. Rich Seckel,...
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Employee of convenience-store chain named Ky. Healthy Policy Champion for helping prevent tobacco sales to underage buyers
Albert Gray —– Albert Gray of Five Star Food Marts has been named a Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for his contributions to preventing the sale of tobacco products to underage consumers of...
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Ky. pandemic numbers hold mostly steady as vaccine is shipped
New York Times map (colors differ from map used by Ky. Department of Public Health); for county numbers, click here. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The coronavirus pandemic in...
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Director of UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health named Kentucky Health Policy Champion for her work in rural health care
Fran Feltner —– Fran Feltner, director of the University of Kentucky‘s Center for Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, has been named a Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for her “trailblazing” work to improve...
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Louisville Urban League president Reynolds named Healthy Ky. Policy Champion for working to reduce racial inequities in health
Sadiqa Reynolds —– Sadiqa Reynolds, president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League, has been named a Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for working to reduce racial inequities in health and other...
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Health officials encourage Kentuckians without symptoms to get coronavirus tests at testing sites, not hospital emergency rooms
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Lexington health officials are imploring Kentuckians without Covid-19 symptoms who want or need to get tested for the coronavirus to go to a testing...
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Positive-test rate drops below 9% after falling for eighth straight day; hospital cases decline, but a record number are ventilated
By Al Cross Kentucky Health NewsThe percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the novel coronavirus dropped for the eighth consecutive day, to 8.86%, a decline of 1.21 percentage points since...
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Despite most new cases yet, and fuller hospitals, Beshear says pandemic trend remains better as he completes a year in office
Ky. Health News graph, based on unadjusted initial daily reports; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On the first anniversary of his governorship, which...
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McConnell torpedoes emerging bipartisan deal for pandemic relief, leaving Congress where it’s been for months: stuck
McConnell on Dec. 8 (Pool photo by Greg Nash via AP) —– “An emerging $900 billion Covid-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers all but collapsed Thursday after Senate...
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Health foundation names Melissa Patrick, Kentucky Health News reporter, one of several Healthy Kentucky Policy Champions
Melissa Patrick —– Melissa Patrick, the only staff reporter for Kentucky Health News, is one of several Kentuckians named a Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion this month by the Foundation for a...