Tag: emergency rooms
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Eye doctors warn about danger from fireworks, even sparklers; optometrists provide safety tips
The Fourth of July goes hand in glove with firework displays. Most families protect parents and children against the dangers of fireworks, but thousands still visit the emergency room every...
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Haynes: Medicaid case managers threatened, and more bumps ahead, but state beginning to see advantages of new system
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Some Medicaid case managers’ lives have been threatened because they have tried to get Medicaid patients to go to primary-care doctors instead of emergency...
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Report: Bounce-house injuries to children have skyrocketed
A new report out today in the journal Pediatrics warns that, on average, 31 children a day are transported to U.S. emergency departments for treatment of bounce-house injuries, including fractured...
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Poll: A quarter of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky residents skip doctor visits and are behind on their medical bills
Nearly one-quarter of adults throughout Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky did not always go to the doctor when they needed to during the past year, according to a Cincinnati Enquirer...
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Northern Kentucky group forms in response to what some consider ‘epidemic’ of heroin use in their area
Ashel Kruetzkamp with a vial of Naloxone HCl, used to treat those who overdoseon heroin. (Photo by Patrick Reddy) Heroin use is reaching such high levels in Northern Kentucky that...
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State’s hospitals see impressive growth spurt from nearly $1 billion in capital investment
Kentucky’s major hospital systems are going big, making high-profile, technology-forward capital investments across the commonwealth. Josh Shepherd of The Lane Report writes that every sector of the state is part...
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Rural health care is a notch below care in urban areas, but its costs are lower and its emergency rooms are faster, study finds
A national study has found a narrow gap between the quality of health care in rural and urban settings, but it does recognize the “significant differences” differences between urban and...
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New law will allow officers to make arrests in emergency-room assaults that they do not witness
Emergency-room workers who treat individuals under the influence of drugs or alcohol will have greater legal protection, and those who misbehave in ERs will have less protection, under a law...
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ER at Louisville’s University Hospital says it is pushed to brink; many other hospitals seeing more emergency patients
Louisville’s University Hospital is straining to meet the vastly increased demand of patients coming to the emergency room. Last year, there were 58,010 visits to the ER to the facility,...