Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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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...
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Neurosurgeon in a county at high risk from the coronavirus gets local paper to share the facts about the virus and the vaccines
Dr. Amr El-Naggar —– In a big Kentucky county with a low coronavirus vaccination rate, a critical infection rate and Covid-19 patients filling its intensive-care beds, a doctor reached out...
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UK HealthCare again best Ky. hospital in U.S. News & World Report rankings; Baptist Health has two of top six in the state
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Six Kentucky hospitals have been named among the nation’s “Best Regional Hospitals” in the annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report magazine. They are, in...
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130 Ky. rural health clinics, more than any state but Texas, will get $6.38 million to increase confidence in coronavirus vaccines
The federal government is sending $198 million to more than 1,980 rural health clinics for outreach efforts to increase locals’ confidence in the safety of coronavirus vaccines, and Kentucky is getting more...
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Closed hospitals in Ky. border counties in Va. and W.Va. are reopening, one as part of a chain, one bought by a local clinic
Its old slogan: “Your Friends on the Hill.” (HD Media photo) —– “Rural hospitals must leverage the full resources of their communities in order to survive.” That’s the “most critical” lesson...
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National settlement would bring Kentucky and its local governments $460 million over 18 years to fight opioid epidemic
Opioid tablets (Getty Images photo) —– Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron and other state attorneys general announced Wednesday a tentative settlement with the nation’s three top drug distributors and drug maker Johnson & Johnson for their...
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UK and other Ky. partners get grant to expand and coordinate prevention of stroke, which kills over 2,000 in state each year
Larry Goldstein, MD, FAAN, FANA, FAHA —– The University of Kentucky, the state Department for Public Health, the University of Louisville and other state partners have been awarded a prestigious grant to expand and...