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Ambulance tax in Trigg County getting hospital into the black
Trigg County (Wikipedia map) — “Trigg County’s new ambulance tax has already reaped benefits for the Trigg County Hospital” in Cadiz, Tonya S. Grace reports for the Kentucky New Era in Hopkinsville. The hospital expects to get...
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House health panel’s new chair starts fast, with bills to ban school tobacco use, study medical marijuana and spur drug treatment
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State Rep. Kim Moser plans a busy first meeting as chair of the House Health and Family Services Committee on Thursday, Feb. 7. She...
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Financial straits of hospital in Breckinridge County illustrate many of the problems of small, rural hospitals all over Ky. and the U.S.
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News HARDINSBURG, Ky. – When the Breckinridge County Fiscal Court voted unanimously in December against raising property taxes to shore up the local hospital’s empty...
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Ambulances report fewer overdose calls, say trend is partly due to availability of drug antidote Narcan and increased use of meth
Your local ambulances may be getting fewer calls for drug overdoses, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that your local drug problems are decreasing. The Anderson News found that OD ambulance calls...
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Managed-care firms and legislators do another ‘Groundhog Day,’ but changes might be coming; Passport objects to recent cuts
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Medicaid managed care organizations and others in the health-insurance industry spent the first half of a three-hour meeting bragging about their...
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KentuckyOne Health in Central and Eastern Kentucky reverts name to Saint Joseph and adds ‘CHI’ to reflect parent firm
The brand was removed from University of Louisville Hospital last year, and will be removed from other facilities in the city once they are sold or closed. (Image from WDRB-TV) —...
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Is this the year Ky. lawmakers throw tobacco and e-cigarettes out of schools? Advocates see more hope, and rally for their bill
Rep. Kim Moser spoke at the tobacco-free-schools rally. (Photo by Charles Bertram, Lexington Herald-Leader) — At a Jan. 22 rally in the state Capitol, students, educators and health advocates asked...
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Counties where drug makers did more marketing had higher rates of overdoses from prescription painkillers, national study finds
Counties where doctors got more attention and favors from drug manufacturers were more likely to have a higher rate of overdoses from prescription opioids a year later, says a new...
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Federal shutdown delays lawsuit against state Medicaid changes
The partial shutdown of the federal government has slowed the lawsuit challenging Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to revamp Kentucky’s Medicaid program with work requirements and premiums starting April 1. The...
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University of Louisville in talks with Nashville hospital firm to partner in buying, perhaps saving Jewish Hospital and its affiliates
The University of Louisville is talking with a Nashville health-care firm to “prevent a catastrophic health-care shakeup in Louisville,” the closure of Jewish Hospital, reports Louisville’s WDRB-TV. The potential deal is “offering a new survival scenario...