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Legislators file bills to limit Beshear’s powers, citing lack of consultation; one accuses him of falsifying data to scare people
Sen. Stephen Meredith, R-Leitchfield (Legislative file photo) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – On the first day of the General Assembly session, legislators filed bills to limit...
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Stivers says emergency-power limits won’t be aimed at Beshear, but Osborne says effort will ‘turn political’; governor stoutly objects
Beshear and (clockwise) Osborne, Stivers, McGarvey and Jenkins —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The legislature’s planned changes in the governor’s emergency powers will address “an...
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Kentucky Primary Care Association announces directors, officers
Jack Miniard The Kentucky Primary Care Association has installed a new board of directors. Members serve three-year terms, officers for one year. The new president of the board of Jack Miniard, CEO...
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Pandemic thrusts Health Commissioner Steven Stack from usually low-profile job into often harsh spotlight of public scrutiny
Less than a month after Dr. Steven Stack moved from running a hospital emergency department to running the state Department for Public Health, the first case of the novel coronavirus was...
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Work on successful lawsuit against changes in Medicaid earns Rich Seckel the Gil Friedell Healthy Policy Champion award
Rich Seckel —– UPDATE, Dec. 21: Seckel was named the Gil Friedell Health Policy Champion award, which comes with a $5,000 grant to a Kentucky-based nonprofit of his choice. (The original...
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McConnell puts fix for ‘surprise billing’ problem in must-pass bill
The massive bill to keep the government open and provide $900 billion in pandemic relief also includes a compromise solution to the nagging problem of “surprise billing” in health care,...
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Paper says it has ‘story of how Trump’s denial, mismanagement and magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter’
Vice President Pence speaks for the task force March 9. (Photo by Jabin Botsford, Washington Post) —– A month ago, as doctors on the White House Coronavirus Task Force watched new cases rising...
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More Ky. hospitals got As on safety-grade report; most still get Cs
Screenshot of Laepfrog page for Whitesburg ARH Hospital, which got a C, shows detail for infection issues and tabs for other issues. For a larger version of the image, click on...
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Public-health officials and workers are ‘a public punching bag’ in a politicized pandemic; 1 in 10 in Ky. have left since it began
Kaiser Health News map; to enlarge, click on it. —– Local public-health officials and workers “have found themselves at the center of a political storm as they combat the worst pandemic...
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Eastern Ky.’s lost generation and echoes that remain: Aftermath of the opioid epidemic, by an expatriate doctor who lost a friend
By Brian S. Barnett, M.D. Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Behavioral Health, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Published in JAMA Internal Medicine My friend drew his last breath alone, in the predawn...