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State health department sending nurses to jails, treatment centers, homeless shelters, other sites with hepatitis A vaccine
The state Department for Public Health has sent a team of nurses to give hepatitis A vaccinations at county jails, state probation-and-parole offices, homeless shelters, treatment centers and drug stores, the Cabinet for...
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Kentucky opens first sober-living unit in a medium-security prison anywhere, with plans to open others across the state
SOAR’s logo was designed and painted by one of the program participants. (Photo by Melissa Patrick, Kentucky Health News) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News BURGIN, Ky. – Kentucky again...
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Registration open for free, day-long forum Sept. 23 on public-health policy considerations regarding medical marjuana
Photo from MedicalMarijuana.com —– Registration is now open for a statewide forum on medical marijuana to be held September 23 in Lexington. The forum is not intended to change minds...
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After appeals-court arguments in case challenging Obamacare, Beshear calls it ‘the future of rural health care’
“A panel of federal appeals court judges on Tuesday sounded likely to uphold a lower-court ruling that a central provision of the Affordable Care Act — the requirement that most...
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Plan to change how some rural hospitals are paid would hike pay to 39 in Ky., totaling $4 million a year, hospital association says
Table from Kentucky Hospital Association letter endorsing changes in the Medicare wage index. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A Trump administration plan to change the way Medicare pays hospitals,...
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State could owe 58 hospitals ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ if Ky. Supreme Court lets stand lower-court rulings on Medicaid rates
WCPO.com photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For about nine years, the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services used a formula to reimburse hospitals for Medicaid that two Kentucky...
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Providers, advocates and academics file court briefs against work rules in Medicaid; only supporting entity is Kentucky Hospital Association
“Dozens of provider groups, advocates and academics are urging a federal appeals court to rule against” Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to require work or other “community engagement” from “able-bodied” Medicaid...
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Ky. Hospital Assn. gets grant for emergency-room software that tracks patient histories from other sites; could thwart ‘ER hopping’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Hospital Association has been awarded a $250,000 grant to equip Kentucky’s emergency departments with software designed to help physicians have access to patient information...
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National foundation study estimates Medicaid work rules would lead to 86,000 to 136,000 in Ky. losing coverage the first year
Commonwealth Fund chart, adapted by Kentucky Health News; click on it for a larger version —– If Kentucky and eight other states persuade federal courts to let them add work...
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McConnell bill to raise tobacco age to 21 passes first hurdle, without controversial provision requiring states to follow suit
This story has been updated to correct an error. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bill to raise from 18 to 21 the nationwide...