Tag: Cabinet for Health and Family Services
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Kentucky Spirit to terminate Medicaid contract with state early; Cabinet assures recipients no interruption in service
Kentucky Spirit, a Medicaid managed-care provider, will terminate its contract with the state’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services a year earlier than scheduled, effective July 5, 2013. The company...
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New state web portal eases non-emergency reporting of child and adult abuse and neglect
The state Department for Community Based Services has launched a web-based portal for reporting child and adult abuse and neglect in non-emergency situations. According to DCBS Commissioner Teresa James, the new...
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State health department says 381 cases of whooping cough puts disease at epidemic levels
The state Department of Public Health says whooping cough is now at epidemic levels. Department officials told Amanda Stephenson of WTVQ-TV in Lexington that 381 cases of the virus have been confirmed...
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Under scrutiny and criticism, cabinet changes way it handles reviews of children who die or nearly die from abuse or neglect
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services is now using a standard form when conducting internal reviews involving children who died or nearly died from abuse or neglect. Staff are...
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Six of 41 child-abuse fatalities show improper follow-up by Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Herald-Leader analysis finds
The way child-abuse deaths are reviewed in Kentucky continues to be problematic. Looking at the 41 child fatalities in 2009 and 2010, Lexington Herald-Leader reporters Beth Musgrave and Bill Estep...
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Beshear to have outside panel review cases of children killed or life-threatened by abuse
An independent panel of experts will review cases of children who have been killed or severely hurt by child abuse or neglect, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Monday. The panel will have...
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Cabinet for Health and Family Services held in contempt over Medicaid services for Eastern Kentuckians
Hazard Appalachian Regional Medical Center, one ofeight ARH hospitals. Courier-Journal photo, copyright 2000 For taking “practically no steps to a comply” to a request to help thousands of patients transfer...
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New Kentucky Medicaid commissioner appointed
In the face of serious turmoil caused by the move to managed care for Kentucky’s poor and disabled, a new Medicaid commissioner has been appointed. Lawrence Kissner starts his new...
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Beshear says he will create state health insurance exchange if federal health reform law is upheld
Gov. Steve Beshear said today that he will wait on creating a health insurance exchange under federal health reform until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the...
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Beshear names Audrey Haynes secretary of embattled Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Audrey Tayse Haynes, who is a social worker by training but knows her way around politics, government and the nonprofit world, will be the new secretary of the state Cabinet for...