Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Proponents of freestanding birthing centers say they have a better bill, but hospital association keeps lobbying against it
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Two Kentucky legislators who have championed freestanding birth centers said Monday that they have agreed to concessions in their latest proposal, but the head of...
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Food and Drug Administration sends White House office proposed regulations banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration sent the White House Office of Management & Budget its long-in-the-making regulations that would ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. OMB “serves...
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Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7; your advantage isn’t always with Advantage; use caution when choosing a plan
By Julie Appleby KFF Health News Consumers know it’s fall when stores start offering Halloween candy and flu shots — and airwaves and mailboxes are filled with advertisements for Medicare...
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State Sen. Stephen Meredith calls for a new health-care delivery system in Kentucky, with Medicaid block grants to local governments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News It’s time to invent a new health care delivery system in Kentucky, and it should be driven by health-care providers, state Sen. Stephen Meredith...
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Report: Big political giver boosted stake in psychedelic drug treatment research implicitly endorsed by Cameron, then funded anti-Beshear ads
Kentucky Health News Around the time Attorney General Daniel Cameron implicitly endorsed using 5 percent of the state’s opioid settlements to fund research to win federal approval of a psychedelic...
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State launches new one-stop website, CoverYourCough.ky.gov, with information on Covid-19, flu and RSV, updated weekly
The state Department for Public Health has launched a new one-stop website for information on Covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. “As we continue into the fall and winter cold and flu...
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CEO of Pikeville Medical Center wins 2023 Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy Award from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Donovan Blackburn, CEO of Pikeville Medical Center, is the latest winner of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy Award for his work...
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Rogers, citing treatment-bed increase, says E. Ky. is becoming U.S. drug-recovery capital; state has launched anti-stigma effort
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky, especially its Appalachian counties, continues to be a hotbed of the opioid epidemic. But it is also a leader in fighting it, and...
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Kentucky Children’s Hospital branch to open Monday in former home of Shriners Hospital on Richmond Road in Lexington
Kentucky Children’s Hospital, part of the University of Kentucky, will open a facility with four pediatric specialty clinics Monday, Oct. 16 in Lexington. A university press release said the four...
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Postsecondary education council honors Stivers for legislation
State Senate President Robert Stivers received the Innovative Healthcare Leader Award from the state Council on Postsecondary Education at its Workforce Collaboratory awards luncheon in Lexington Tuesday. “The award celebrates Stivers’...