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Study: Ky. non-profit hospitals get more in tax exemptions than they give in community benefit; hospitals dispute methodology
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News A first-of-its-kind report argues that all of the nonprofit hospital systems in Kentucky are spending less on community investments and charity...
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‘Trigger law’ would end legal abortion in Kentucky if Supreme Court overturns its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, as leaked
Screenshot of image of Scribd document from Politico —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overturn the court’s 1973 Roe...
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All key metrics to measure the coronavirus in Ky. are creeping up, as state slips to 37th in the share of population fully vaccinated
Map by The Washington Post; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even as the national Covid-19 risk map shows low risk of community transmission...
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Paul says if he’s re-elected and in the majority, he will subpoena Fauci’s records and ‘get to the bottom of the origins of this virus’
Paul at rally in state House Speaker David Osborne’s barn (Lexington Herald-Leader photo by Austin Horn) —– U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, seeking a third six-year term, “promised Saturday to wage a...
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‘Misinformation is now our leading cause of death,’ FDA boss says
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D., speaks with an attendee at the event. (AHCJ photo by Paola Rodriguez) —– Newly confirmed Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf says “the issue that keeps him...
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The Covid-19 pandemic devastated many nurses’ mental health, and workplace racism made it worse, two recent studies find
Shannon Simonovich and Kashica Webber-Ritchey and other faculty and students at DePaul interviewed nurses. —– Nurses from all backgrounds have felt immense stress during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for nurses...
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CDC says certain people in Bourbon, Henderson, Nicholas and Union counties should mask up in indoor public spaces
CDC map shows Union, Henderson, Bourbon and Nicholas counties with a medium level of Covid-19. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Four Kentucky counties are back in yellow on...
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USA Today reports on its analysis of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes last winter, with a focus on Trilogy Health Services
Some Trilogy Health Services residents who died of Covid-19 (Photos contributed to USA Today) —– USA Today recently published its findings from an in-depth analysis that looked at Covid-19 nursing home deaths...
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Coronavirus positive-test rate in Ky. rose from 3.12% to 4.35% last week, even as cases and Covid-19 hospital numbers dropped
Kentucky Health News map with Dept. for Public Health data on GISGeography base map —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus...
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First phase of $87 million HEALing Communities Study to address opioid epidemic has touched thousands of Kentuckians
UK’s Sharon Walsh, Carrie Oser and Amanda Fallin-Bennett, along with the Clark County Health Department’s Jennifer Gulley (second from left) presented an update on community engagement in UK’s HEALing grant at...