Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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University of Pikeville says it will build Kentucky’s third dental school with a $25 million gift from an anonymous donor
University of Pikeville website logo —– The University of Pikeville plans to create Kentucky’s third dental school with a $25 million gift from an anonymous donor’s family foundation, the largest in the...
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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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Former state public-health commissioner Jeff Howard is interim director of Metro Louisville Department of Health and Wellness
Dr. Jeffrey Howard —– Dr. Jeffrey Howard, the longest-serving of three public-health commissioners in the previous state administration, has been named acting director of the Louisville Metro Department of Health and...
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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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Number of school-based health clinics keeps growing
Kentucky Primary Care Association map; for a larger version, click on it; to download, right click. —– The number of school-based clinics in Kentucky keeps growing, as four community health...
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Panel discusses a post-Roe v. Wade America; journalists are encouraged to treat as health issue, not a political one
healthlaw.org image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two days before the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that proposes to overturn abortion rights under its 1973 Roe...
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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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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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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...