Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Annual county health rankings will be released Wednesday
The national County Health Rankings for 2011 will be released Wednesday, March 30. The rankings give a snapshot view of every county in the nation by examining factors such as rates...
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Communities, crusaders for smoking bans honored at ceremony
The Bullitt County Health Department, the City of Bowling Green and the 2010 edition of the Campbell County Fiscal Court won 2011 Smoke-free Indoor Air Excellence awards from the Kentucky Center for Smoke-free...
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Beshear will use line-item veto on Medicaid bill to remove mandatory cuts in other state programs and school funding
Democrats appear to have prevailed in the State Capitol battle over the budget and Medicaid. (Update, March 25: Beshear issued the vetoes.) After the Republican-controlled Senate passed a budget fix...
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Groups try education to allay confusion about health reform
Though the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act celebrates its first birthday today, most Americans admit they are still largely confused by what its provisions will mean for them. To...
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Bullitt County health board votes to make county smoke-free; Fiscal Court wants a judge to decide if a board has that power
Bullitt County’s board of health voted to enact a countywide smoking ban Tuesday evening, but the county’s Fiscal Court wants a judge to decide if the board has that authority. “This...
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St. Joseph Health System CEO is leaving for Texas
The chief executive of Saint Joseph Health System is leaving his post June 1 to join a health group in Dallas. Eugene Woods, right, will become executive vice president and...
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Electronic health records are the new frontier in health care
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Just two years ago, the acronym EHR didn’t mean much to many people. But since Congress passed the health-care reform law last year, physicians...
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Second summit will shed light on health literacy
The second annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit will be held in Bowling Green Thursday and Friday. “The event will raise awareness about low health-literacy skills,” The Courier-Journal‘s Darla Carter reports....
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Parents’ insurance can now cover children up to age 26
Following the lead of the federal health-care law, Kentucky employers can now extend health coverage to their employees’ adult children. The employees will not be subject to state taxes if...
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Near-unanimous House passes Medicaid plan; Senate mum
By an overwhelming margin of 94-4, the state House today passed a bipartisan bill to fix the state Medicaid budget, again putting the ball in the court of the Republicans...