Category: EVENTS
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Election prompts a look at Beshear’s pandemic restrictions, and Cameron’s challenges to them; Kentucky fared better than feared
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern On March 6, 2020, a Kentuckian tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, and Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency. The...
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The pandemic is over; now Covid-19 is endemic but is still a leading cause of death. When we will stop treating it differently?
As new coronavirus variants make the headlines and Covid-19 hospitalizations are are on the rise, experts told Carolyn Y. Johnson of The Washington Post that this is the new normal in a...
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Annual health-policy forum Oct. 11 in Lexington will focus on health-care workforce shortage; discount hotel rate expires Mon.
A strong and robust health-care workforce is fundamental to ensuring access to high-quality care, but many areas of Kentucky have a shortage of this vital resource. Kentucky’s health-care workforce shortage...
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Kentucky Opioid Symposium will be held Oct. 9-10 in Lexington
Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission will host what it calls its inaugural opioid symposium Oct. 9 and 10 in Lexington. The two-day conference will feature presentations...
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Overdose Awareness Day was opportunity to raise awareness and reduce stigma of drug use; now it’s National Recovery Month
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Each year, the last day of August is observed as International Overdose Awareness Day, to raise awareness of overdoses, acknowledge the grief felt by...
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Community professionals who work with Kynect have a new online resource to connect them with resources and each other
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new website called KyLoop has launched to provide an online connection space for community professionals who work in outreach and enrollment through Kynect,...
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State and advocates try to keep eligible Kentuckians on Medicaid
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Some patients find out they’ve been dropped from Medicaid when they come in to pick up a prescription. Others, when they arrive for a doctor’s...
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Kentucky Association of Health Plans is offering free rides at Kentucky State Fair to people who get vaccinated at its site there
he Kentucky Association of Health Plans is hosting its third annual vaccination pop-up clinic at the Kentucky State Fair and while supplies last, will give away free, unlimited ride wristbands...
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‘Disrupting Addiction: A KET Forum’ premieres Monday, July 24, to discuss the work being done to ease this public-health crisis
Kentucky Health News According to the state’s annual Overdose Fatality Report, 2,135 Kentuckians died from a drug overdose in 2022. That was 5 percent fewer than in 2021, but many...
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Advocates of using psychedelic drug ibogaine to treat addiction say its risks to the heart can be mitigated in a controlled study
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission held its first public hearing Monday, July 17, to discuss funding development of an opioid-use disorder treatment using...