Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Brooke A. Flinders, a double graduate of Frontier Nursing University, will become its next president on Aug. 1
Kentucky Health News Brooke A. Flinders, who earned her advanced degrees from Frontier Nursing University, has been named the next president of the Versailles institution. Flinders has extensive experience as an...
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Saint Joseph hospitals in Lexington, London and Mount Sterling seek applications for grants to improve well-being, health equity
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The CHI Saint Joseph Health hospitals in Kentucky are accepting applications for local nonprofit organizations to apply for grants aimed at supporting services to...
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Recovering alcoholic built Kentucky’s largest substance-use treatment provider, which has 1,800 beds and 1,350 employees
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern LOUISA, Ky. — Around the office at Addiction Recovery Care, Vanessa Keeton is still known as “Client One” — marking her status as the first...
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Bowling Green’s Med Center Health acquires Russellville hospital
Kentucky Health News Med Center Health, the nonprofit hospital chain based in Bowling Green, is now the owner of 75-bed Logan Memorial Hospital, and has changed its name to The...
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State accepting applications for medical-cannabis licensing lottery and prescribing authority; patient cards not available until Jan. 1
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Kentuckians can now begin applying for a cannabis business license, and medical providers can apply to the state Board of Medical Licensure and Board of Nursing...
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Ben Chandler to retire as head of Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky; board names COO Allison Adams to succeed him
Ben Chandler, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky for the last eight years, announced Thursday that he would retire at year’s end and be succeeded by...
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Rural Tennessee hospitals near Kentucky border remain closed as the Volunteer State keeps spurning expansion of Medicaid
By Taylor Sisk KFF Health News JELLICO, Tenn. — In March 2021, this town of about 2,000 residents on the Kentucky border in the shadow of Pine Mountain lost its...
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Dr. Bruce Scott, Louisville otolaryngologist, becomes president of American Medical Association, says he’s ‘ready to fight’ for docs
Kentucky Health News Dr. Bruce A. Scott, an ear, nose and throat specialist from Louisville, was sworn in Tuesday, June 11, as the 179th president of the American Medical Association,...
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First naxolone shipment under settlement with drug maker arrives
Kentucky Health News Nearly 8,000 doses of naloxone, which reverses the effects of drug overdose, were delivered to Kentucky this week as part of a settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals, Attorney...
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Kentuckians’ access to mental-health care lags behind the nation. Paying providers more would help, psychologists say in report.
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Kentuckians are far more likely to pay out of pocket for mental and behavioral health services than for surgical or other medical care, except for...