Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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25% of Ky.’s community-health-center visits are via telehealth; bill would codify some temporary telehealth rules, such as audio visits
Rep. Kim Moser —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to codify telehealth provisions that were put into place during the pandemic to temporarily relax some of the...
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Beshear says new sites will put vaccine close to all Kentuckians; opens assisted-living facilities to limited visitation; urges testing
White House Coronavirus Task Force graphic, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear offered some good news at his last news conference of...
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Report says 16 rural Kentucky hospitals are at risk of closing; provides 2017-18 financial data for hospitals, 2019 for most
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Forty percent of America’s rural hospitals are struggling to stay open, and 16 of them are in Kentucky, according to an analysis by the Center for Healthcare...
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We must break the silence about suicides of nurses as they fight for patients in the pandemic, UK’s dean of nursing writes
Janie Heath, Ph.D. —– By Janie Heath Dean, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky While the Covid-19 pandemic rages on with new variants, the urgency for Kentucky nurses to stay...
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As Ky. positive-test rate keeps falling, but death trend keeps rising, feds say new virus variants make vaccinations more urgent
Johnson & Johnson has completed studies of its one-shot vaccine and is expected to ask the FDA for emergency-use authority late next week. (Photo by Dado Ruvic, Reuters) —– By Al Cross...
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UK finalizing deal to manage Ashland hospital in ‘joint venture’
King’s Daughters Medical Center (2011 photo) —– The University of Kentucky and King’s Daughters Heath System, which has a major hospital in Ashland, have formed what they call a “joint venture.” Mark Newman, UK’s...
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Biden reopens marketplace for subsidized health insurance under Affordable Care Act, from Feb. 15 to May 15, citing pandemic
President Biden is reopening enrollment for federally subsidized health insurance policies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for three months, giving Kentuckians another chance to get help from...
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Primary Care Association builds out new data system to become more efficient, with help of $250K grant from UnitedHealthcare
The Kentucky Primary Care Association is developing a new data system for its member clinics, with the help of a $250,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare, a major insurance company. “The Centralized Healthcare And Revenue...
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State records 58 Covid-19 deaths today, a record, but Beshear cites state’s low death rate, says more masking may be helping
Gov. Andy Beshear, at top near right, and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, at bottom near left, in a vaccination video with counterparts in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. —– By Melissa...
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Hospitals agree to follow higher quality standards to get more money from Medicaid, which covers 1/3 of state’s population
Friedlander and interpreter Virginia Moore announced the new hospital payment program. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With up to 28 rural Kentucky hospitals vulnerable to closure if their financial situation...