Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Ky. risks running out of hospital and ICU beds, governor warns
State Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the surge of Covid-19 cases continues to escalate...
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Surge in Covid-19 cases can make it hard to find an advanced-care hospital bed for rural patients who have other ailments
State Dept. for Public Health table from daily report, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge. —– Skyrocketing Covid-19 hospitalizations mean hospitals are running out of beds. That’s hurting not just...
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Former governor’s nonprofit gets another big federal grant for its residential housing program to treat substance-use disorder
Numbered counties in red: 2, Cumberland; 3, Clinton; 10, Robertson; 13, Menifee. —- A not-for-profit organization headed by former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who was a doctor before he got into...
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With almost 3,000 new coronavirus cases, Kentucky’s rate of increase is among the fastest in the nation; deaths are up too
State Dept. for Public Health map, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported almost 3,000 new cases of...
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Six substance-use treatment centers get $1 million each from feds
Six Kentucky programs to treat substance-use disorder will each get $1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, established by Congress...
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National Health Center Week salutes federally qualified health centers, primary-care providers for one in eight Kentuckians
Map (click on it to enlarge) shows Kentucky Primary Care Association members, their health centers and counties where they have school-based clinics. Shading of counties shows congressional districts. —– Aug....
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Chain with 11 Ky. nursing homes stops visits when an employee tests positive, but still isn’t making employees get vaccinated
Christian Health Center in Hopkinsville (Photos by Jennifer P. Brown) —– Christian Care Communities, which operates 11 nursing homes in Kentucky, “is using what it learned to minimize the risk of...
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Community Health Days offering screenings and coronavirus vaccines in 32 Appalachian Ky. counties through November
The first Community Health Day was held in Hindman Friday, Aug. 6. (Photos by Melissa Slone, UK) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News HINDMAN, Ky. — The first of 96 University...
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Hospitals seeing many more Covid-19 cases, and more of them in younger people; four systems now require employee vaccination
Kentucky Health News graph, based on data from state Department for Public Health —– This story has been updated. When the pandemic resurged in Kentucky last month, Gov. Andy Beshear said he would...
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Special enrollment period for health insurance on healthcare.gov ends Aug. 15; subsidies are bigger, and more people qualify
AARP illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Time is running out to sign up for low- or no-cost health insurance through the federal marketplace under the special enrollment...