Category: YOUR HEALTH
-
Emergency docs give Ky. ’emergency care environment’ a D grade, 47th in U.S., but a C (12th) for actual delivery of care
Kentucky’s overall emergency-care environment, including its medical-malpractice laws, is the fifth worst in the nation, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians. ACEP gave Kentucky a grade of “D” and...
-
$230 million expansion at Baptist Health Lexington to provide private patient rooms and updated spaces throughout
Baptist Health Lexington, formerly Central Baptist Hospital, is undergoing a $230 million expansion that will make it better, not necessarily bigger, Dan Dickson reports for Business Lexington. The expansion will...
-
Kentucky Equal Justice Center, active in Obamacare signups, wins award from Consumer Reports magazine
The Kentucky Equal Justice Center, a non-profit advocacy organization most recently in the news for encouraging Obamacare enrollments, has won the Consumer Reports Excellence in Consumer Advocacy Award, which includes a...
-
Statewide smoking ban is ‘very important’ to improving Kentucky’s health, state public-health commissioner says
A statewide law to protect people from secondhand smoke is “very important” for improving the overall health of Kentucky, the state’s public-health commissioner said on the latest edition of KET‘s...
-
House gets bill for school diabetes-management training
A bill to allow school personnel to administer insulin and otherwise treat diabetes symptoms if they undergo specified training is headed to the House floor. House Bill 98 reflects a shortage of school...
-
Poll finds that 79 percent of Kentuckians, including 60 percent of Republicans, support Beshear’s expansion of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians strongly support Gov. Steve Beshear’s decision to make hundreds of thousands more of them eligible for Medicaid under the federal...
-
30% of uninsured Kentuckians still don’t know about Kynect health-insurance exchange despite heavy advertising, poll finds
By Melissa Landon and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kynect, Kentucky’s online marketplace for health insurance, launched on Oct. 1 under the federal health-reform law. In a poll taken from...
-
E. Ky. women pass up breast, cervical cancer screenings due to embarrassment, misinformation; fatalism may play a role
Appalachian Kentucky women often don’t get available screening test for breast and cervical cancer because of embarrassment, lack of accurate information about availability and guidelines, and lack of encouragement from...
-
Beshear budget would expand oral health, cancer screening, brain-injury treatment and alternatives to institutionalization
Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposed state budget includes money to expand oral health programs, screening for cervical and breast cancer, treatment for Kentuckians with brain injuries and programs to held disabled...