Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Top floor of UK hospital tower opening, completing its occupancy
By Allison Perry University of Kentucky Beginning next week, the medical and cardiovascular intensive-care units inside the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital have a new home: the 12th...
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Ky. health-care workers can apply for loan relief until Jan. 31
By Beth Bowling University of Kentucky In just over a year, the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health has helped provide more than $1.3 million in loan...
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Ky. health-care providers lobby for bill that would ease health insurers’ required prior authorization for medical procedures
OPINION by health-care provider groups listed below It’s a situation all of us will find ourselves in at some point. You’re sick, or get diagnosed with a chronic condition, or...
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Kentucky leads the nation in use of new class of drugs that fight diabetes and obesity; more than 2% of Kentuckians use them
Kentucky Health New Kentucky has the nation’s highest rate of dispensed prescriptions for a new class of diabetes and obesity medications, according to the analytics company PurpleLab and published by...
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Senate passes bill to cut number of Medicaid managed-care firms from 6 to 3
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The nearly 1.6 million Kentuckians with managed-care Medicaid health coverage would choose from three companies next year instead of the current six, under a...
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CHI St. Joseph Health to be new satellite site of nursing school
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Lincoln Memorial University of Harrogate, Tenn., near Kentucky’s southeastern corner, will launch a nursing-education site with CHI Saint Joseph Health in Lexington later in 2024,...
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First Opioid Abatement Settlement Commission meeting under new leader draws big crowd, largely to support ibogaine study
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 130 people attended the first Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission meeting under the group’s new executive director, by all indications in support of the...
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Third annual Harlan County Drug Summit looks at ways to address addiction, with a focus on prevention
Nearly 200 people attended the third annual Harlan County Drug Summit on Thursday, Jan. 11, to hear a message largely focused on prevention, Chandler Wilcox reports for Hazard’s WYMT. “We have a lot...
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‘Blue Monday’ is a myth, but seasonal affective disorder is not
Monday, Jan. 15, is considered by some to be “Blue Monday,” the most naturally depressing day of the year as people feel “blue” from holiday bills, bleak weather and forsaking...
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Open enrollment for federally subsidized health insurance ends Tuesday, Jan. 16; Ky. enrollment is already ahead of last year’s
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians can still shop for and enroll in federally subsidized health insurance coverage on the state-based marketplace, Kynect, though Jan. 16 for coverage starting...