Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Kentucky’s transgender youth are caught in the middle as Beshear, Cameron and political allies spar over trans health care
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern Ysa Leon is questioning their future in Kentucky. The outcome of the state’s gubernatorial election this November will be a deciding factor. “I’ve told my...
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McConnell announces another multi-million-dollar grant to former Gov. Fletcher’s firm to help build housing for drug treatment
Kentucky Health News Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he helped get $3.3 million for the Fletcher Group, a nonprofit founded by former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, to build housing...
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Physician-in-chief at Kentucky Children’s Hospital says state can do better by its kids; it ranks 40th in well-being of children
By Dr. Scottie B. Day University of Kentucky A recent report by the 2023 Kids Count Data Book studied how economic well-being, education, health and family support impacts a child’s overall...
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Kentucky Homeplace trains 11 more community health workers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Community health workers fill a vital role in meeting the health-care needs of Kentuckians. Now the state now has 11 more of them. CHWs...
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Kentucky Association of Health Plans is offering free rides at Kentucky State Fair to people who get vaccinated at its site there
he Kentucky Association of Health Plans is hosting its third annual vaccination pop-up clinic at the Kentucky State Fair and while supplies last, will give away free, unlimited ride wristbands...
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Demon Copperhead author and Kentucky native Barbara Kingsolver talks about the opioid epidemic and Appalachia’s difficulty with it
Barbara Kingsolver says she intended her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead to be her “great Appalachian novel” that told the story of how the opioid epidemic has ravaged the region, and its...
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The ‘sandwich generation’ still supports its children while caring for its parents, which is playing a toll on its health
Kentucky Health News America has Generation X, Generation Z and more, but it also has “the sandwich generation,” adults between 40 and 59 who care for their aging parents and...
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Health-care workers are more likely than law-enforcement officers to have injuries and illnesses that keep them away from work
Kentucky Health News “Health-care workers are increasingly being assaulted or shot on the job, making hospitals and clinics among the most dangerous workplaces in America,” report Tina Reed and Jason Millman of Axios. ...
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Attorney general files lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers, manufacturers over alleged insulin pricing scheme
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers over an alleged insulin pricing scheme. The lawsuit...
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UK HealthCare joins several other Kentucky hospital systems and will no longer require employees to get a Covid-19 vaccination
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Federal rules requiring Covid-19 vaccinations in health care settings were lifted in early June, and while several of the larger Kentucky hospital systems soon...