Category: YOUR HEALTH
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UK hospital, troubled by deaths in pediatric heart program, says it will partner with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
The University of Kentucky hospital, which suspended its pediatric heart program three years ago after five of its patients died, has signed a letter of intent to form a partnership...
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Liquids in some e-cigs are linked to serious lung diseases
Electronic cigarettes, which come in multiple flavors such as cotton candy, vanilla custard and unicorn milk, may not be as safe an alternative to traditional cigarettes as some would like...
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Kentucky Voices For Health names new executive director
Emily Beauregard Emily Beauregard has been named executive director of Kentucky Voices for Health. “We had an excellent pool of candidates for the position and are thrilled to have found in...
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School health units expand in Southern Ky.; treatment and prevention should pay off in longer, healthier lives for students
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News School-based health centers are a new approach to providing student health care through a public-private partnership, whose model of care has the potential to...
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Clinton County Hospital in Albany gets most of its USDA debt forgiven, but is still in bankruptcy and is seeking a buyer
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has forgiven more than half the debt owed it by the Clinton County Hospital, which has been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since last...
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New ad blames problems of Ky. hospitals entirely on Obamacare; they say it’s only partly to blame, but worry about future impacts
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new ad in the race for governor says “There’s a crisis in our hospitals” in Kentucky, and blames it entirely on the federal...
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Beshear keeps up defense of Obamacare, McConnell gives only a short rebuttal at State Fair breakfast
Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell traded views on health-care reform at the Kentucky Farm Bureau‘s country-ham breakfast at the Kentucky State Fair, but McConnell made...
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Republican senator suggests expanding Kynect to other states to help pay state’s coming share of Medicaid expansion
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the Republican nominee for governor says he would dismantle the state health-insurance exchange branded as Kynect, a GOP senator is talking about not...
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Non-profit hospitals in Flemingsburg and Horse Cave become part of larger groups in order to stay open
Two more rural Kentucky hospitals, Caverna Memorial Hospital in Horse Cave and Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg, are merging with larger hospital groups in an effort to make ends meet....
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Health care industry ranks first, by far, in legislative lobbying since ’93; insurance second, tobacco third; drugmakers’ rank a mystery
By far, health-care interests have spent the most on lobbying the General Assembly since the Legislative Ethics Commission was created 22 years ago, Jonathan Meador of Insider Louisville discovered among...