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Kentucky Health News is 10 years old; here’s more about us
Kentucky Health News entered its 11th year last month. How did it get started? How does it approach its work? What has it learned from its research and outreach? These...
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25% of Ky.’s community-health-center visits are via telehealth; bill would codify some temporary telehealth rules, such as audio visits
Rep. Kim Moser —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to codify telehealth provisions that were put into place during the pandemic to temporarily relax some of the...
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Harm reduction services, ‘that place between prevention and treatment,’ can make a difference in substance-abuse disorder
Daryl Hams, registered nurse and project director of the Regional Harm Reduction Collaborative (Photo: Amanda Rossman, Cincinnati Enquirer) —– In an article titled “The people who care: How harm reduction strategies for those who...
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Judge in lawsuit over governor’s emergency powers tells Beshear and legislature to end ‘communicaJudge in lawsuit over governor’s emergency powers tells Beshear and legislature to end ‘communications gap’ and compromisetions gap’ and compromise
Judge Phillip Shepherd —– Kentucky Health News Republican legislative leaders and Gov. Andy Beshear, who have been trading potshots for most of the pandemic, need to compromise on their dispute...
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Report says 16 rural Kentucky hospitals are at risk of closing; provides 2017-18 financial data for hospitals, 2019 for most
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Forty percent of America’s rural hospitals are struggling to stay open, and 16 of them are in Kentucky, according to an analysis by the Center for Healthcare...
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We must break the silence about suicides of nurses as they fight for patients in the pandemic, UK’s dean of nursing writes
Janie Heath, Ph.D. —– By Janie Heath Dean, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky While the Covid-19 pandemic rages on with new variants, the urgency for Kentucky nurses to stay...
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As we queue up, or don’t, for vaccines, West Kentucky columnist sees some of the Seven Deadly Sins but also a couple of virtues
By Constance Alexander MURRAY, Ky. – Pride, covetousness, lust, anger, envy, sloth, scandal. That was how we memorized the Seven Deadly Sins at St. Francis School. Our source was the...
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Health commissioner and head of vaccine distribution will appear in webinar at 2 p.m. ET Feb. 10; free, but registration required
Officials who make decisions about the coronavirus vaccines in Kentucky will appear in a webinar at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 10. Health Commissioner Steven Stack and Transportation Cabinet Secretary...
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Judge issues order blocking 1 of 3 new laws limiting governor’s powers, calling it ‘a clear and present danger to public health’
Judge Phillip Shepherd —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A Frankfort judge has blocked the effects of one of the three laws that the state legislature passed, over Gov....
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Advocates say restoring local governments’ ability to regulate marketing and sale of tobacco products would fight youth ‘vaping’
Rep. Kim Moser —– Giving local governments the ability to regulate tobacco products would help limit young people’s use of the products, which youth say have increased during the pandemic,...