Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Career-college CEO says to take a look at health care careers
By Bruce Kepley In the mid-1990s, I started and ran a business that trained workforces on specific computer software. Large companies would hire us to come in and train their...
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Federal appeals court upholds ruling against 2018 Kentucky law banning abortion procedure used in second trimester
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article243212861.html
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Beshear says more time needed to detect a ‘new bump’ in virus cases; says Supreme Court upholds his orders on gatherings
Kentucky Health News chart shows upward two-week trendline slightly lowered by latest report. —– As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may be updated. Official...
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214 new covid-19 cases reported Monday, keeping trendline up; protests spread virus; experts say key is 80% wearing masks
Kentucky Health News chart shows two-week trendline about where it was on Saturday: up. —– As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may be updated....
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Virus cases are elevated for 2nd straight day in Ky., but Beshear attributes pattern to heavy testing in long-term-care facilities
Anonymous cell-phone tracking gauges mobility as the economy reopens. Selected counties’ numbers are shown; all are available on an interactive map from The Washington Post, with a story; click here. —– As...
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Rebidding of Medicaid managed-care contracts gets same result: Anthem and Passport to be out on Jan. 1; Passport plans protest
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians on Medicaid will have a new managed-care organizations to deal with when the new year rolls around, because two...
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Virus cases spike; Beshear says too early to draw conclusions; Butler, county with highest infection rate, reports 6 deaths in 1 day
Kentucky Health News chart shows how the spike in cases turned the two-week trendline almost flat. —– As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may...
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Beshear offers statistics to show that his ‘drastic and significant steps’ saved thousands of lives, says to ‘remember the lessons’
This chart was topped with a headline, “Kentucky in Lockstep with White House/CDC Guidance;” Gov. Andy Beshear said May 4-10 included about 350 cases found by mass testing at a prison....
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Most of Kentucky’s Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinic are testing for the coronavirus; anyone can get a test
By David Bolt CEO, Kentucky Primary Care Association The covid-19 pandemic has amplified the importance of health-care providers, networks and collaborations in our local communities. In particular, the Federally Qualified...
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400 Kentuckians have died of covid-19; Beshear confronts the politics of masks and resistance of some local officials to testing
The governor’s mansion uses green lights to memorialize the deaths of Kentuckians from covid-19. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On the day when the national covid-19 death toll...