Author: tara_kaprowy
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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...
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Hybrid operating room, with both surgery and imaging, part of UK Chandler Hospital’s $800 million expansion
A distinguishing feature of the $800 million expansion to the University of Kentucky‘s Chandler Hospital will be a hybrid operating room. The 1,000-square-foot room, with a price tag of $3.2...
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As expected, Beshear asks legislature to move $100 million from next year’s Medicaid budget to make up this year’s shortfall
Gov. Steve Beshear, left, is urging the legislature to pass legislation that would rectify a $100 million shortfall in the 2011 Medicaid budget. If it doesn’t, Beshear said payments for...
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Kentucky gets an ‘F’ for how it handles food-borne illnesses
Kentucky is one of 13 states to receive an “F” for the way it handles food-borne illnesses, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Mary Meehan reports. The Center for Science in the Public...
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Kentucky one of six states to join Cervical Cancer-Free America
Kentucky is one of six states that has joined the Cervical Cancer-Free America initiative, led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The announcement was made today as...
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Retail medical clinics are faster and cheaper, but they can cause problems for patient care, doctors say
Medical clinics located in retail establishments such as Walgreens and Walmart are becoming increasingly popular, The Courier-Journal’s Laura Ungar reports. Researching and consulting firm Merchant Medicine lists 40 retail clinics...
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Essay contest for grad/undergrad students, topic: ‘Obamacare’
KaiserEdu.org is hosting its annual essay contest, with this year’s essay topic President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the U.S. House voted yesterday to repeal. The competition...
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Faith-based alliances may be exempt from health-insurance mandate; Kentucky court case part of national question
Though the health-refom law requires all Americans to be enrolled in a health-insurance plan by 2014, Christians can be exempt if they pool their risk. Such is the message being...