Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Covid-19 numbers in Kentucky continue to go down, but the state’s infection rate is now the highest among the states
New York Times map, adapted by Ky. Health News; click on it to enlarge. Tennessee may seem as “hot” as Kentucky, but its metropolitan areas have lower rates, so it ranks only fifth...
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Beshear says he expects the pandemic will ease by mid-March in Ky.; right now, our infection rate remains fifth among the states
Kentucky Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday...
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4 Ky. community mental health centers join Medicaid program to blend mental health, behavioral health and medical services
Four community health centers in Kentucky are in a two-year pilot program that lets them provide medical services for Kentuckians on Medicaid, not just behavioral and mental health care. The Demonstration...
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Proposed new CDC guidelines for treating pain would encourage use of non-opioid therapies first, avoid one-size-fits-all approach
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map, adapted by Ky. Health News, shows opioid-prescribing rates in counties that ranked highest and those surrounded or nearly surrounded by them. —– By Melissa...
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State’s infection rate still sixth in nation; Beshear blames later Omicron surge and legislature’s removal of his prevention powers
Chart shows how Kentucky’s daily vaccination rate has declined over the last two months. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The metrics used to measure the pandemic in Kentucky...
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Appalachian youth use cameras in UK cancer center’s project to document and think about cancer in rural Kentucky
For 19-year-old Brianna Reyes Fry of Carter County, a butterfly represents a deeper meaning: “A butterfly resembles change. Kentucky needs change. We need a breakthrough.” (University of Kentucky photo by Pete...
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Virus cases keep falling, but not as quickly as in most states; Kentucky’s infection rate is seventh highest in the nation
New York Times map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Like much of the nation, Kentucky’s coronavirus case...
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Louisville hospitals worry that shortage of nurses, worsened by the pandemic, will damage how they care for patients for years
Colleagues care for Becky Fulks, a nurse at University of Louisville Hospital nurse who nearly died from Covid-19 though she was vaccinated. Only 15% of Covid patients in hospitals are...
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New law protects consumers from surprise medical bills
Graphic from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As of Jan. 1, Americans who get surprise medical bills have new federal consumer protections....
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Kentucky Covid-19 hospitalizations have biggest one-day drop in months; virus new-case rate keeps falling but remains 2nd in U.S.
New York Times graphs show Kentucky’s new-case rate is second highest. Click on image to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases, Covid-19 hospitalizations and percentage of...