Tag: health care access
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Madisonville program aims to develop home-grown doctors
Photo from overseastraineddoctors.com Rural areas are too often underserved by the medical community, but a Madisonville program targeting high-school seniors as prospective health-care providers is helping change that. There are...
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Official praises needle exchanges and medication-assisted treatment for addiction: ‘Treatment works. Recovery is possible.’
Scott Hesseltine Scott Hesseltine, the new vice-president of addiction services at Louisville’s Seven Counties Services, talked on Kentucky Educational Television about needle exchanges and a new model of addiction treatment that combines medication...
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Feds strengthen anti-discrimination health rules
Photo from mdxipe.wordpress.com By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News The Department of Health and Human Services issued rules Friday in an effort to ensure equality in health care for women,...
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Study shows uninsured rate keeps falling, preventive services are popular and rural hospitals have more uncompensated care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The share of Kentuckians without health insurance continues to drop, and new Medicaid enrollees continue to take advantage of free preventive health services, according...
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Many Americans, including those on Obamacare plans, can’t afford their health-insurance deductibles, studies show
The United States has entered the era of high out-of-pocket medical cost as a way to keep insurance premiums low, but recent studies have found that many Americans are having...
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Suicide rates are rising in the U.S.; experts attribute high rate in rural Ky. to poor mental health access, stigma and ‘gun culture’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After a decade of decline, suicide is becoming more common in the United States, increasing by 24 percent from 1999 through 2014, according to the...
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Struggling Tenn. hospital takes care of Kentuckians, who get better care than Tennesseans thanks to expanded Medicaid
Jellico Community Hospital, just across the Kentucky border in Tennessee along Interstate 75, was taken over by Community Hospital Corp. last May, but that’s not a guarantee it will survive, especially since...
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Legislature’s many health bills include some with life-saving potential, better prevention, greater access and help for children
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One paragraph in this story was incorrect and has been stricken. FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky legislators have all but ended their regular session without...
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Poll: Most Kentucky adults, especially the poor, say time, money and motivation make it hard to improve their health status
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Regardless of how Kentucky adults describe their health status, almost two-thirds of them said it would be difficult or very difficult to make positive...
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Study of preventive health status finds Kentucky is in the middle of the pack generally, but has several good and bad aspects
A study that looked at preventive health services among states in three categories found that Kentucky fell near the middle of the pack for most of the measures, but was...