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St. Joseph is only Kentucky hospital in Healthgrades’ Top 250
Saint Joseph Hospital of Lexington is the only Kentucky facility to get the America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award from Healthgrades, an online source for information about physicians and hospitals, owner Catholic Health Initiatives announced...
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Andy Beshear’s first TV ad in primary casts him as friend of Medicaid expansion, coverage of pre-existing conditions
Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Besehar greeted each other before one of the governor’s State of the Commonwealth addresses. In the opening television commercial of his campaign for...
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Louisville health department offers fentanyl strips to safeguard drug users; fentanyl responsible for more than half of 2017 ODs
As a way to protect drug users from deadly fentanyl, Louisville’s health department has started passing out test strips, Beth Warren reports for the Louisville Courier Journal. Fentanyl was initially added to heroin,...
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State health department funds mobile syringe exchange for Laurel, Whitley, Knox, Clay and Jackson counties
Five Eastern Kentucky counties will soon have a mobile syringe exchange to minimize the spread of infectious diseases and to help get people who are addicted to drugs into treatment,...
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Statewide tobacco-free-schools bill finally passes, and the governor is expected to sign it into law, effective July 1, 2020
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill to ban the use of tobacco products in all Kentucky public schools and events finally passed on the last...
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Health departments, regional mental-health centers, other entities get a pension fix, but at a cost to some employees’ pensions
Teachers filled the Senate gallery. (Herald-Leader photo by Matt Goins) —– As it closed up shop, the legislature gave local health departments, regional mental-health centers and other government-related agencies another reprieve...
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Judge again blocks state’s Medicaid plan with work requirements for many, says likewise for similar plan already in effect in Ark.
The order vacating federal approval of Kentucky’s plan —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A federal judge in Washington has again blocked Gov. Matt Bevin’s attempts to require many...
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Man who ran drug-treatment facilities in Ironton and Portsmouth, Ohio, is indicted on drug-trafficking charges
Graffiti under the U.S. Grant Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio (Cincinnati Enquirer photo by Liz Dufour) —– The former operator of Ohio drug-treatment facilities just across the river from northeastern Kentucky was indicted Wednesday...
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Beshear says he’s investigating pharmacy benefit managers for possible overcharging, and discrimination against independents
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear are the most likely nominees for governor in the Nov. 5 election. —– Attorney General Andy Beshear announced March 21 that he...
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Justice secretary touts treatment over incarceration; ‘We have to distinguish who we are mad at and who we are actually afraid of’
Justice and Public Safety Secretary John Tilley (Photos by Melissa Patrick) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State Justice and Public Safety Secretary John Tilley told foreign scholars visiting Kentucky...