Tag: behavioral health
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New Kentucky program aims to turn recovery into career pathway
By Nadia Ramlagan Kentucky News Connection A statewide program in Kentucky aims to provide credentialing and pathways to a career in social work for people in substance use disorder recovery....
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Pilot program expanded to divert some low-level offenders away from jail and into treatment
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A pilot program to divert some low-level offenders away from jail and into substance use disorder or mental health treatment is expanding into seven...
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Louisville’s Our Lady of Peace opens first retail pharmacist-operated, long-acting injection clinic; will mostly treat opioid abuse
Insider Louisville photo Kentucky is again leading the nation in finding ways to combat the...
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Baptist Health Corbin and Mountain Comprehensive Health, Whitesburg, get USDA grants to treat addiction via telemedicine
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $720,000 grant to Baptist Health Foundation Corbin Inc. and Mountain Comprehensive Health Corp. in Whitesburg for telemedicine programs...
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Madisonville girl provides example of emerging teletherapy that can help overcome shortage of psychiatrists in rural areas
When Ron Gadley searched for a therapist who could help his daughter, Rebecca, with depression near their Madisonville home, he found that their options were shockingly limited. The few child...
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UK gets $2.8 million grant for Rural Health Research Center; will study health-care access in poor, rural U.S., including Appalachia
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky has received a $2.8 million competitive grant to establish a Rural Health Research Center that will focus on access to...
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At third and final Medicaid hearing, Eastern Kentucky residents say plan doesn’t match up with the realities of their region
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News In the county and region where the expansion of Medicaid has had the most impact, residents and health-care providers gave the harshest criticism yet...
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Panel considers involuntary, court-ordered outpatient treatment for mentally ill; foe says would infringe on personal rights
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Representatives from five groups involved in mental health offered legislators solutions June 15 for ending the revolving door between hospitalization, incarceration and homelessness that...
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Doctors trying to reverse course on opioid prescriptions can find it difficult because of addiction, shortage of good alternatives
The epidemic of opioid overdoses, 60 percent of which are blamed on abuse or misuse, “is changing prescribing habits, but there’s still a lack of other pain medications, access to...
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Clark County schools to provide mental health services via contract with agency that can bill Medicaid or private insurance
Facing a surge in behavioral health cases among students, the Clark County Board of Education has contracted with a mental-health agency services for all preschool through high school students in...