Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Cases up, positive-test rate down; Beshear says mask mandate having effect, but suggests more people should work from home
State chart adapted by KHN; current period has 3 of 7 days remaining; at current rate would be 3845. —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Thursday’s...
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Republicans’ new relief plan has less for hospitals, nothing for Medicaid; McConnell ‘faces flak from both left and right’
Senate Republicans’ latest covid-19 relief proposal “sets up new fights over health funding even as the pandemic continues to overwhelm the country,” report Dan Diamond and Adam Cancryn of Politico. “There’s more hospital bailout cash,...
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As case numbers hit a near-record and positive-test rate surges, Beshear asks churches to drop in-person services and says he will limit some business activity Monday if the surges don’t abate
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News After reporting Kentucky’s second highest daily number of new coronavirus cases and a surging positive-test rate, Gov. Andy Beshear asked churches...
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Beshear says he wouldn’t ask teachers to return to classrooms now, and may ask schools planning early-August starts to wait
By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsAs Kentucky’s coronavirus surge continued Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear said he wouldn’t ask a teacher to resume teaching now, but “I want to see where we...
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Foundation’s annual policy forum shifts gears in pandemic, to be a series of monthly webinars on children’s health, starting Sept. 21
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s 20th annual policy forum will focus on policies and programs that reduce the chances of disease and unhealthy behaviors that often begin in childhood, including...
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Hospitalizations and positive-test rates increase; daily cases fall, but 7-day average inches up; Beshear says deaths will rise
Rhonda King leaves the hospital. (Image from WLKY-TV) —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More Kentuckians are testing positive for the coronavirus and more of them are...
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Ky. records second highest number of cases and most patients in intensive care in one day; Beshear defends statewide approach
Kentucky Health News chart; daily numbers may have been slightly adjusted since initial report. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear reported Tuesday the second highest number...
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With most new virus cases in a day by far, Beshear says it’s ‘a wake-up call’ and ‘We’re going to have to take some more action’
Kentucky Health News chart; daily numbers may have been adjusted slightly since the reporting date. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear reported nearly...
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Passport Health Plan, which lost its Medicaid contract in recent bidding, is selling key assets to one of the winners, Molina Health
By Lisa Gillespie Kentucky Health News Molina Health, in line to be one of Kentucky’s newest Medicaid managers, will be the successor to Kentucky’s oldest one, Passport Health Plan. Louisville-based Passport...
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With record number of new cases, and high positive test rates and hospitalizations, this could be Kentucky’s worst covid-19 day yet
Kentucky Health News chart; hospital data hasn’t been reported daily and recently changed systems. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With coronavirus cases at a new high, and hospitalizations...