Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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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...
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Telehealth is improving access to health care; digital interactions emerge as a silver lining to the pandemic’s dark cloud
Max Coyne does telehealth. (Photo provided to the University of Kentucky) —– By Shannon Clinton The Lane Report Amy Coyne noticed her 9-year-old son Max wasn’t feeling well and booked a...
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Attorney general has online form to report Medicaid fraud, abuse
Kentuckians have a new tool for reporting suspected Medicaid fraud and patient abuse to the Office of the Attorney General. They can now electronically report abuse, neglect, and exploitation by completing...
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Latest White House report has fewer Kentucky counties in danger zones, drops two points of preventive advice from previous report
Table from White House Coronavirus Task Force report; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky got a better report this week from...