Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Senate passes its version of state budget with many health items; $100 million would ‘support a response to the nursing shortage’
Photo from American Nurses Association —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Senate passed its version of a two-year state budget by a 30-6 vote Wednesday, the same...
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House hopes third bill is the charm as it sends the Senate compromise legislation to address ambulance delays
Rep. Ken Fleming, R-Louisville —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The House has passed and sent the Senate a bill aimed at improving ambulances’ response times, for both emergent...
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Compromise bill to address hospitals’ issues with ambulance services passes first hurdle; aimed at delays in transfers
Rep. Ken Fleming, R-Louisville —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With input from 13 stakeholders, a compromise version of a bill to improve ambulance responses to both emergent and...
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Most coronavirus metrics keep falling; Beshear says the main lesson of the pandemic is ‘We all count, every single one of us’
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As the pandemic continued receding in Kentucky...
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McConnell, long a vaccine advocate, objects to Biden’s mandate for health-care workers, saying it threatens Ky. rural hospitals
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been perhaps the most outspoken Republican leader in favor of vaccination against the coronavirus, but Thursday he objected to President Biden’s vaccination mandate for...
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State as a whole moves out of the ‘red zone” but 51 counties are still in it; infection rate 6th, hospitalization rate 3rd among states
NYT graphs show new-case rates of the top state, Maine; Kentucky (which ranks sixth); and the only bordering state in the top 10, West Virginia (which ranks fifth). Kentucky ranks third...
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State is almost out of the ‘red zone’ but still ranks 6th in nation, and many counties still have high coronavirus infection rates
Ky. Health News graph, from state data; click on it to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky remains one of the states most affected by the coronavirus,...
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State and schools get new Covid-19 guidance; Beshear makes employee masks optional; state will go from daily to weekly report
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Kentucky came close to leaving the statewide “red...
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Kentucky’s coronavirus infection rate is sixth among the states and its Covid-19 hospitalization rate ranks second
New York Times graphs show top nine states in infection rates, and the national rate. Click to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The waning pandemic continues to...
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Senate bill to address the state’s nursing shortage passes its first hurdle, but some say it wouldn’t do enough
Photo illustration via Nolan Group Media —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to address the nursing shortage in Kentucky passed out of a legislative committee Wednesday, but...