Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Deal to sell Jewish Hospital may be falling apart, raising the possibility that it might be closed, with big ramifications
The future of Louisville’s Jewish Hospital is in doubt. Its owner, KentuckyOne Health, “continues to lose money after months of negotiating to sell it and other local facilities to a...
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Arkansas drops thousands from Medicaid for non-compliance with work requirements; Ky. official says ‘Kentucky is not Arkansas’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Arkansas is the first state to implement work and community-engagement requirements for some of its “able-bodied” Medicaid beneficiaries, just like Kentucky is trying to...
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Kentucky public-health nurses in N.C. helping deal with Florence
Commissioner Jeffrey Howard, far right, posed with the team headed to North Carolina. Back row, L-R: Nancy Hamilton (Department for Public Health), Sherita Hall (Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness), Christopher Smith (Lexington-Fayette...
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Four years into Obamacare, Kentucky’s uninsured rate leveled out, and probably rose. Why? It depends on whom you ask
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the fourth full year since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was implemented, the percentage of Kentuckians without health insurance remained about...
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Baptist Health names Dr. Jody Prather chief strategy officer
Baptist Health, Kentucky’s largest hospital company, has named Dr. Jody Prather of Elizabethtown its chief strategy officer, a job in which he will work with other executives “to create strategic...
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U of L seeks nominations for award for Ky., S. Ind. nurses
Monday, Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. is the deadline to nominate outstanding nurses from Kentucky and Southern Indiana for the fifth annual Florence Nightingale Awards in Nursing, presented by the University of...
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At first SOAR summit session only about health, speakers agree local cooperation is needed to address Appalachia’s health issues
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News PIKEVILLE, Ky. – From top to bottom of the health-care system, speakers agreed local cooperation is essential to improving health in Appalachian Kentucky. They...
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State health official says Ky. is considering cutting nearly 500,000 people off of Medicaid because of a $300 million program shortfall
Health officials said the state is considering eliminating Medicaid coverage to almost 500,000 Kentuckians because the program is facing a nearly $300 million shortfall. During a review of the 2018...
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Grant program for children’s health enters final year; foundation plans to create a video and report to share with other communities
As a $3 million Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky grant program that focuses on children’s health moves into its fifth and final year, the foundation says it will conduct the final evaluations...
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State is moving ahead with regulations for its new Medicaid plan though it’s still vacated by a federal court
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Though Kentucky’s proposed Medicaid plan was vacated by a federal judge just days before it was set to go into effect on July 1,...