Tag: hospitals
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In Floyd County, opinions about health care reform depend on whom you ask, and in some cases they are surprising
At the Eula Hall Health Center in Grethel, nurse Stephanie Clark takes vitals of Mary Murphy, 54, whose leg blood clot wasn’t treated for 15 years because she couldn’t afford...
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CEO of Somerset hospital, rated by Consumer Reports as clearly the least safe in Kentucky, is resigning
Mark Brenzel (Photo via Somerset Commonwealth Journal) The CEO of the Kentucky hospital with by far the lowest safety rating from Consumer Reports magazine is resigning. Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital is...
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UK’s advanced ventricular-assist device program for heart patients saves and improves lives
Two years ago, John Doty was diagnosed with walking pneumonia, and though antibiotics originally helped, the pneumonia came back with a vengeance, and he went to see a cardiologist. He...
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Consumer Reports rates hospitals on safety, puts Somerset hospital last in Kentucky; hospital blames its incomplete data
Consumer Reports magazine recently released safety rankings for hospitals across the country, compiled from government data. Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, Maine, received the best safety rating in the U.S., a 78...
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Kentucky hospitals list their community benefits
Kentucky hospitals estimated that they contributed nearly $2.18 billion to their communities in 2012, up from $1.96 billion the previous year, says a report compiled from information provided by the hospitals...
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UK hospital tells 1,079 former patients that a laptop computer with their medical records was stolen in early February
The University of Kentucky reported Wednesday that personal health information of 1,079 people who had been patients at its hospital was on a laptop computer that was stolen in early...
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Anthem gives hospital group grant to improve perinatal care, including discouraging early, medically unnecessary deliveries
The foundation of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has awarded nearly $259,000 to an arm of the Kentucky Hospital Association to improve perinatal care and outcomes for mothers and their babies by...
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Activist seeking stronger rules on reporting health-care infections says industry lobbyists misled legislative committee to kill bill
“Health-care industry witnesses appeared to have presented incorrect information” to the House Health and Welfare Committee in speaking March 6 against House Bill 460, which would require all health-care facilities...
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Hospitals try to do more with less while not compromising quality as they adjust to changes in the health-care marketplace
A. B. Chandler Medical Center at the University of Kentucky Hospitals are laying off employees and cutting budgets because of changes in the marketplace and the ways consumers seek care,...
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Primary care, a big focus of health reform, faces challenges as Kentucky doctors deal with change
Craig Dooley, newly covered by Medicaid under health reform, got an X-ray in Dr. Sven Jonsson’s Baptist Health office. (Photo by Luke Sharrett for The New York Times) Primary-care doctors are...