Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Nurse retires after 41 years at Shelbyville Hospital, says she never dreamed she’d end her career in the middle of a pandemic
Kathi Hornback (WHAS-TV image) —– Never dreaming she would work through a pandemic or retire in the middle of one, Kathi Hornback, a nurse of 41 years who has worked in...
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Feds send nursing homes quick-test kits, but with rules that deter their use; so do other factors, chief nursing-home lobbyist says
Betsy Johnson —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Testing is one of the few tools nursing homes have to keep the novel coronavirus out of their facilities, and the...
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8 nursing homes have had 1/3 of Ky. covid-19 deaths; one thing they had in common was having relatively few registered nurses
Stanford Care and Rehabilitation reported only 23 minutes of registered-nurse care per patient day in the last quarter of 2019. It’s had many deficiencies, and 18 of its residents have died...
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Dale Toney is new president of Kentucky Medical Association
Dale Toney, M.D. —– Dr. Dale Toney, a Lexington internist, is the new president of the Kentucky Medical Association. He was elected last weekend at the organization’s annual meeting, which was held...
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Baptist Health completes purchase of E’town hospital, which it has managed for 20+ years; changes name to Baptist Health Hardin
Baptist Health, which has managed Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown for more than 20 years, has completed a long-delayed purchase of the 300-bed facility and given it a new name: Baptist...
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Almost half of Kentucky’s counties are in federal report’s danger zones, reflected in the state’s slowly rising daily virus case count
Table from White House Coronavirus Task Force report; for a larger image, click on it. —– By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News Fifty-nine of Kentucky’s 120 counties are in danger zones...
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Nursing homes say they need more help from the state; their residents have accounted for 58.6% of covid-19 deaths in Ky.
WKYT-TV image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As they remain the main sites for deadly infections of the novel coronavirus, Kentucky’s nursing homes are asking for more help...
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Poll: 3 of 4 Kentuckians say they worry about affording health care
Chart from poll report; for a larger version, click on it —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than half of Kentucky adults struggled to pay for health care...
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Ky. campaigning in seven counties to get more of Black and Hispanic populations, hard-hit by covid-19, on Medicaid
Image from Diversity Nursing Blog —– Kentucky is launching a “1-2-3 No Cost to Me” campaign to get more Black and Hispanic residents enrolled in health coverage, Deborah Yetter reports for the...
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Health Watch USA to host ‘Covid-19 Vaccines’ webinar Aug. 19
Health Watch USA will host a webinar on vaccines for the novel coronavirus at 7 p.m. ET Aug. 19. “Covid-19 Vaccines” will focus on the current status of advocacy related to...