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Second suit challenges UK’s use of state to collect medical debt
The University of Kentucky should have to go to court to collect medical debts, not use the state tax agency as a collection agency, says a federal lawsuit filed against UK and...
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Career-college CEO says to take a look at health care careers
By Bruce Kepley In the mid-1990s, I started and ran a business that trained workforces on specific computer software. Large companies would hire us to come in and train their...
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Writer worries about spread of virus in Central Ky. restaurants
By Randy Patrick I’m worried that many of the restaurants I’ve visited in Clark and Jessamine counties are following the guidelines for safe reopening of their dining rooms. I just...
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Beshear says ‘right-wing militia group’ that hung him in effigy was ’embraced and emboldened’ by GOP legislators at earlier rally
A member of the Three Percent Militia hangs an effigy of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear during a “Patriot Day 2nd Amendment Rally” in support of gun rights at the State...
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Reopening when we’re not quite ready to thwart covid-19 means managing risk, and there are four types, health expert writes
No state “has met the metrics to safely reopen,” so the nation “needs to move to the public health strategy of harm reduction,” says former Baltimore health commissioner Leana Wen....
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Protesters hang Beshear in effigy, sparking bipartisan rebukes
Protesters hung Gov. Andy Beshear in effigy from a tree across from the governor’s mansion and took their demonstration to its front porch, prompting objections from Kentucky politicians of both...
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Child care reopenings set; tentative date announced for larger gatherings and bars; Beshear says ‘We may be in true reduction’
Kentucky Health News chart shows two-week trendline slightly down, more than Wednesday. —– By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsSmall child-care centers in Kentucky will be allowed to reopen June 8, and...
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Hardin Memorial Hospital will become Baptist Health Hardin
The hospital is on US 31-W (Dixie Avenue) in Elizabethtown. —– The sale of 300-bed Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown to Baptist Health will be complete by Sept. 1, three months earlier that the...
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Two weeks before ban on gatherings is to be relaxed, church sues Beshear to have it lifted, and attorney general joins in
Tabernacle Baptist Church —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A Nicholasville church says in a federal lawsuit that Gov. Andy Beshear’s ban on mass gatherings is unconstitutional as applied...
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Governor and health commissioner say they look at data models to guide their decisions, but ‘don’t have something to share’
Graphs from the rt.live website show the likeliest transmission rate of the coronavirus, within estimated ranges. A rate of 1 is an estimate that one infected person will infect one other person,...