Tag: Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
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Foundation for a Healthy Ky. granted $1 million in 2016, pushing 15-year total above $26 million; plans more smoke-free work
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky awarded grants in 2016 totaling a little more than $1 million to nonprofit organizations and community health coalitions working to improve Kentucky’s health. That...
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Foundation for a Healthy Ky. to have new direction and focus, new CEO Ben Chandler says in announcing new board members
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky will take a new direction under Ben Chandler, its new president and CEO, Chandler said in announcing new leaders and members for the foundation’s...
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Study finds Kentuckians on Medicaid expansion make heavy use of preventive screenings
Kentuckians covered by Medicaid through its expansion in 2014 are using their preventive screening benefits more than the traditional Medicaid population, according to a report done for the Foundation for...
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Study finds 78 percent of Kentuckians on Medicaid have coverage through expansion, most of them young adults
Medicaid covered almost 636,000 adult Kentuckians in the second quarter of this year, with the great majority of enrollees covered under Medicaid expansion and almost half of them young adults,...
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Study finds Medicaid is paying for more emergency-room visits while charity care and self-pay visits drop
Emergency room visits have remained fairly steady in Kentucky since 2012, but have increasingly been covered by Medicaid since the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according...
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Kentuckians are likely to need help signing up for health insurance on the federal exchange, especially in east and south
Kentuckians looking for a 2017 health plan on the federal exchange will likely need some help signing up, if a study of last year’s need for support on the former...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky announces four new members for its Community Advisory Committee
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky announced four new members of its Community Advisory Committee Monday, Nov. 14. The 31-member committee serves as a liaison between Kentucky communities and the...
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Many Kentuckians still defer or delay health care and prescription medications due to cost
One in five Kentuckians aged 18 to 65 are delaying medical care or going without it due to cost, according to a study done for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky....
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Kentuckians who work for small employers in the state aren’t likely to be offered health insurance; most large employers do
Most of Kentucky’s small employers don’t offer health insurance, while almost all of the state’s larger employers do, according to the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. Percentage of Kentucky private-sector...
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Study finds Kentucky hospitals had 77% less charity care in first two years of Obamacare; ER visits were about the same
An ongoing report of federal health reform’s effect on Kentucky says hospitals have significantly less charity care and care to the uninsured than they did before the reform was implemented....