Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Six of the state’s 61 health departments are losing their directors; pandemic made some of them delay or advance their departure
Dr. Kraig Humbaugh —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 10 percent of the state’s health departments are losing their directors, with five retiring and one resigning. And the...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talks at Rural Health Journalism Workshop about boosting federal nutrition programs
USDA graphic; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Department of Agriculture is making sure children have enough to eat this summer, updating temporary...
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Risks of vaccines are very small, but one in four Kentucky adults think those risks outweigh the benefits of getting vaccinated
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky poll, Feb. 11-March 12, 2021; error margin +/-3.5 percentage points —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One in four Kentucky adults told pollsters last...
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Ky. is reporting fewer than 200 new coronavirus cases per day, and the share of residents testing positive has fallen below 2%
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Leading indicators of the pandemic in Kentucky have passed...
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Temporary Medicaid ending; special marketplace enrollment period ends Aug. 15; premium-free COBRA ends in September
Families USA graphic; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians have about two more months to buy reduced-cost health insurance on the...
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Kentucky ranks low in vaccinations of nursing-home employees
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge —– Employees providing care at Kentucky nursing homes are among the least likely in...
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Coronavirus vaccinations being delivered at an increasing rate; Beshear says state incentives are helping, not sure how much
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Vaccination for the coronavirus is on the rise in Kentucky, as the state’s seven-day rolling average of daily shots has risen to more than 16,500 after...
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Beshear says Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare should end challenges to law that let his father expand Medicaid in Kentucky
A slide Beshear displayed at his press conference By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection...
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Ky. averaging more than 15,000 coronavirus vaccine doses per day in last seven days, more than half again as previous week
Vaccinations for the coronavirus continue to increase in Kentucky, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as analyzed and displayed by The Washington Post in a chart adapted...
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Local collaborations help tackle Ky.’s health problems, and can be guided by hospitals’ and health departments’ needs assessments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Collaborations in individual communities can play a critical role when it comes to improving Kentucky’s poor health outcomes, largely because those outcomes are grounded...