Category: FEATURED
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Most Kentucky hospitals in national safety ratings got Cs again; state’s percentage of A grades is 35th in nation, down from 30th
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A nonprofit group that gives letter grades twice a year to hospitals for patient safety has again given grades of C to most Kentucky...
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Nation’s top opioid manufacturer, which sent 716 million pills to Kentucky in 2006-14, drove epidemic by influencing prescribers
Average number of pain pills distributed per person, per year, by county, 2006-14. (Detail of map by The Washington Post; click the image to enlarge it or click here for the interactive version.) —–...
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FDA proposes ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars, popular among Blacks, whose leaders are divided on the matter
Photo from ash.org —– Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its long-anticipated plan to ban menthol cigarettes and all flavors in cigars. “The proposed rules would help prevent children...
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Ky. Nurses Assn. and its school-nurse task force aren’t happy with the lack of state funding to reduce the nursing shortage
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo —– May is National Nurses Month, a reminder of the essential services that nurses have always provided, but especially during the pandemic, which...
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Post-Roe, rural women would face more obstacles; retired health director says the issue is about men, women, sex and control
Bertie Salyer —– “Trigger laws” would make abortion in Kentucky and 12 other states illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned. That would disproportionately affect rural women, who are more likely than their...
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CDC says Union, Henderson and McCracken counties have medium levels of virus, so high-risk people there need masks
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three Western Kentucky counties are yellow on the national Covid-19 risk map, for counties with a...
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Beshear says Ky. is ‘pretty safe’ from Covid-19 and he expects ‘room for at least some executive order’ for medical marijuana
State chart, adapted by Ky. Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the state heads into Kentucky Derby weekend, Gov. Andy Beshear said all the metrics to...
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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...