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Bill aims to ease Kentucky’s nursing shortage by relaxing licensing and instruction requirements, enrollment caps
Sen. Robby Mills —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A state Senate committee plans to hear a bill Wednesday to address the nursing shortage in Kentucky, which has been...
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Bill would allow a year of Medicaid for new mothers, almost 1/2 of whom don’t get routine care in Ky., where death rate is highest
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill that would extend Medicaid coverage to new mothers up to 12 months after giving birth passed unanimously out of the House Friday...
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UK Markey Cancer Center gets $10 million gift to consolidate many of its operations on Limestone Street in Lexington
UK HealthCare will use a $10 million gift from Lexington’s Central Bank to build an outpatient cancer treatment center and advanced ambulatory complex for its Markey Cancer Center. The gift is the largest ever to...
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Anti-overdose drug Narcan available to people under Corrections community supervision in eight counties, eight more this summer
Ky. Health News map shows counties in HEALing Communities Study —– The anti-overdose drug Narcan is now available free of charge to people under community supervision by the state Department of...
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Appalachian youth use cameras in UK cancer center’s project to document and think about cancer in rural Kentucky
For 19-year-old Brianna Reyes Fry of Carter County, a butterfly represents a deeper meaning: “A butterfly resembles change. Kentucky needs change. We need a breakthrough.” (University of Kentucky photo by Pete...
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New law protects consumers from surprise medical bills
Graphic from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As of Jan. 1, Americans who get surprise medical bills have new federal consumer protections....
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McConnell: Time to wind down Covid-19 emergency; Beshear says Ky. still needs resources from it but is ‘pretty close to normal’
Sen. Mitch McConnell speaking on Senate floor. Photo captured from YouTube. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell says it’s time to trust science and the...
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Research suggests local journalists quote local experts, not Fauci, when discussing pandemic health guidelines
Dr. Anthony Fauci —– Rural journalists are charged with keeping readers informed about the coronavirus pandemic, but widespread skepticism of government-endorsed public-health measures makes it difficult (as rural Minnesota publisher-editor...
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Coronavirus cases remain high in Kentucky, but other measures of the pandemic, including Covid-19 hospitalizations, decline
Kentucky Health News graph; click it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Coronavirus cases remain at near-record highs in Kentucky, but Covid-19 hospitalizations and the seven-day positive-test...
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School nurse advocates disappointed that the House didn’t fund a nurse for every school, but say they will lobby the Senate for it
Nurse Vicki Williams worked at a school in Calloway County in this 2017 photo. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Representatives of the Kentucky Nurses Association‘s School Nurse Task Force...