Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Most Kentucky school districts are not requiring masks
NOTE: Oldham County decided Monday evening to require masks. (WFPL map) —– Nearly two-thirds of Kentucky school districts are not requiring masks in their buildings as the new school year begins,...
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Six substance-use treatment centers get $1 million each from feds
Six Kentucky programs to treat substance-use disorder will each get $1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, established by Congress...
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Study in Kentucky concludes re-infection with the coronavirus is 2.34 times more likely if you’re not vaccinated than if you are
Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky —– A new study, conducted in Kentucky during the two months before the Delta variant surge hit the state, says that...
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State ranks 14th in childhood trauma; a coalition called Bloom Kentucky has formed to seek statewide policies to change that
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A collaboration of 31 grantmaking organizations across Kentucky have launched an initiative to focus on statewide policy changes to prevent and lessen the impacts...
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Chain with 11 Ky. nursing homes stops visits when an employee tests positive, but still isn’t making employees get vaccinated
Christian Health Center in Hopkinsville (Photos by Jennifer P. Brown) —– Christian Care Communities, which operates 11 nursing homes in Kentucky, “is using what it learned to minimize the risk of...
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Community Health Days offering screenings and coronavirus vaccines in 32 Appalachian Ky. counties through November
The first Community Health Day was held in Hindman Friday, Aug. 6. (Photos by Melissa Slone, UK) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News HINDMAN, Ky. — The first of 96 University...
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A six-week surge of the coronavirus has put Ky. about where it was six months ago, but then it was going down; now it’s going up
Ky. Health News graph, based on initial, unadjusted daily reports; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Six weeks of the Delta variant have put...
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11 Ky. hospital systems require vaccine amid surge (2,000 new cases, 2nd day in a row); Beshear asks other sectors to follow suit
Health Commissioner Steven Stack drew red trendlines on this state Department for Public Health graph to show that the pandemic is accelerating in Kentucky more quickly now than it did last fall....
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‘Things will get worse before they get better, but we can fight this,’ Beshear says as pandemic accelerates again in Kentucky
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the pandemic continues to surge in...
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020; fentanyl and methamphetamine remained the biggest drivers of death
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020, according to the state’s latest annual report. “In addition to the stress caused by the pandemic, we...