Category: HEALTH POLICY
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CDC says certain people in Bourbon, Henderson, Nicholas and Union counties should mask up in indoor public spaces
CDC map shows Union, Henderson, Bourbon and Nicholas counties with a medium level of Covid-19. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Four Kentucky counties are back in yellow on...
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OPINION: Insurers say killing bill hospitals, pharmacists backed against pharmacy benefit managers saved Kentuckians money
Tom Stephens —– By Tom Stephens Executive Director, Kentucky Association of Health Care Plans Pocketbook issues were front and center in this most recent session of the Kentucky General Assembly...
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First phase of $87 million HEALing Communities Study to address opioid epidemic has touched thousands of Kentuckians
UK’s Sharon Walsh, Carrie Oser and Amanda Fallin-Bennett, along with the Clark County Health Department’s Jennifer Gulley (second from left) presented an update on community engagement in UK’s HEALing grant at...
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Beshear says he is looking at ways to bring medical marijuana to Ky. by executive action, while seeking public’s opinion on topic
Business Insider map provided by Beshear’s office, adapted by Ky. Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky failed again...
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Judge blocks state’s new anti-abortion law, pending study of it
U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings —– Kentucky Health News A federal judge has blocked Kentucky’s broad, new anti-abortion law, saying it has so many restrictions that she needs time to...
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Free academy at Pikeville June 12-25 will introduce rising high-school seniors and juniors in Appalachian Kentucky to nursing
The regional development group Shaping our Appalachian Region and the state Department for Public Health’s Office of Health Equity are hosting the first Appalachian Nursing Academy June 12-25 at the University of Pikeville for rising juniors and...
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Kentucky gets $4.19 million to expand AmeriCorps work in public health, with the hope it will funnel more people into such work
Kentucky has received nearly $4.2 million to expand the public-health role of the AmeriCorps program in the state. The grant comes from the American Rescue Plan Act, last year’s pandemic relief...
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Coronavirus cases and positive-test rate in Kentucky are rising, but deaths and hospital numbers are declining more
Kentucky Health News chart from state data —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Daily cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus are rising again, apparently...
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Kentucky’s two clinics suspend abortions as lawsuits challenge new law that is called ‘one of the most restrictive in the nation’
Rep. Randy Bridges, R-Paducah, gives a thumbs down to abortion advocates who chanted “Bans off our bodies” at the state Capitol April 13. (Photo by Ryan C. Hermens, Lexington Herald-Leader) —–...
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Health bills were among those that passed (some with overrides of vetoes) and failed in the last two days of the legislative session
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Republican legislature overrode more than two dozen of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes Wednesday and Thursday, including a wide-ranging abortion bill that was...