Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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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...
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Kentucky gets a ‘D’ grade on second annual report card on maternal mental health, a bit worse than the national average
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky received a D grade on the second annual report from the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, moving up from a D-minus in...
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Health-care industry is most at risk from cyberattack, study says
Health care is increasingly more at risk of cyberattacks than other industries, according to a recent study by Soax, a data-collection platform, reports Cara Smith of Inside Health Policy. As cyberattacks against Change...