Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Database shows the basics of each rural hospital’s finances
Want to check the financial history of your local hospital? There’s a quick and easy way to get the fundamental figures, thanks to a reporting project last year on rural...
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Ads touting McConnell’s record on surprise billing, Medicare for All could be a surprise of their own, since they confuse the issues
Analysis by Al Cross Kentucky Health News A conservative group has started television and radio commercials in Kentucky and other states thanking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others in...
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Medical marijuana advocates more hopeful it will pass, but main foe still cites lack of evidence; bill asks feds to do more research
medicalnewstoday.com image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to legalize marijuana for medical purposes has been filed in the Kentucky General Assembly, with great hopes by advocates...
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Organ donor’s story spurs bill to give state employees paid time off for such donations, create tax deduction for related expenses
Beth Burbridge gave Jackson Alldaffer a kidney. (Courier Journal photo) —– “A woman who donated an organ to a complete stranger, then mounted a campaign to give paid leave to...
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Bill to ban female genital mutilation passes out of Senate health committee; Kentucky is one of 15 states where practice is legal
@StopFGM Twitter image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bipartisan bill to ban female genital mutilation in Kentucky unanimously passed out of committee Jan. 15...
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Bill to raise legal age to purchase tobacco products in Kentucky to 21, in compliance with federal law, passes first hurdle
Kendall Tubbs, Bonnie Hackbarth and Sen. Ralph Alvarado spoke for a bill to raise Kentucky’s legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21. (Photo by Melissa Patrick) —– By...
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Smoke-free advocates rally at state Capitol for three measures to decrease soaring youth use of electronic cigarettes
Coalition for a Smoke-free Tomorrow rally at state Capitol —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s Coalition for a Smoke-free Tomorrow rallied in Frankfort Jan. 14 to call...
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Health issues poll: 75% of Ky. adults support tax on e-cigarettes; highest rate of use is in younger adults; about half recognize harm
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll shows that three out of four Kentucky adults support taxing electronic cigarettes, which is the only tobacco product...
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Executive of ‘low-rated’ nursing-home chain is now health cabinet’s inspector general, overseeing nursing-home inspection
Adam Mather —– When Andy Beshear became governor a month ago, Adam Mather was regional operations vice president for Signature HealthCare, a Louisville-based firm “that owns more than two dozen low-rated...
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State has texting programs to help young people stop ‘vaping;’ experts say only 5 of 100 smokers are able to quit on their own
WebMD photo —– The abrupt change in the legal age to buy tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, has likely resulted in many to people 18, 19 and 20 being cut off...