Month: June 2021
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Temporary Medicaid ending; special marketplace enrollment period ends Aug. 15; premium-free COBRA ends in September
Families USA graphic; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians have about two more months to buy reduced-cost health insurance on the...
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Kentucky ranks low in vaccinations of nursing-home employees
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge —– Employees providing care at Kentucky nursing homes are among the least likely in...
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KET program, airing Monday night and online afterward, explores how to die a better death, with a focus on palliative care
The World Health Organization describes palliative care as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and...
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Coronavirus vaccinations being delivered at an increasing rate; Beshear says state incentives are helping, not sure how much
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Vaccination for the coronavirus is on the rise in Kentucky, as the state’s seven-day rolling average of daily shots has risen to more than 16,500 after...
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Some Kentuckians say ticks are worse than ever; experts can’t say that, but offer ways to protect yourself from tick-borne illness
Lone Star ticks on Anna Pasternack’s wrist (photo provided; click to enlarge) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Some Kentuckians are saying ticks are more plentiful than ever this...
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Beshear says Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare should end challenges to law that let his father expand Medicaid in Kentucky
A slide Beshear displayed at his press conference By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection...
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UK seeks children under 12 to be part of Covid-19 vaccine trial
The University of Kentucky is seeking children from six months through 11 years old to participate in a federally funded clinical trial of the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus. UK is one of 90 sites...
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Ky. averaging more than 15,000 coronavirus vaccine doses per day in last seven days, more than half again as previous week
Vaccinations for the coronavirus continue to increase in Kentucky, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as analyzed and displayed by The Washington Post in a chart adapted...
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Firm that has 30 addiction-treatment centers in Kentucky has its largest one on a former college campus near Springfield
Joseph Bentley got his GED degree at Crown Recovery and now helps others do it. (Photo by Jonathon Gregg, Spectrum News) —– Addiction Recovery Care has been serving patients since on the former...
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Health plans’ vaccination campaign moves to Eastern Kentucky; vaccinations are on the rise, perhaps due to state incentives
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News At a different county health department in the heart of Eastern Kentucky each day this week, Kentucky’s health-insurance companies will give away ten $100...