Tag: hospitals
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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...
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KentuckyOne Health lays off 500 of 15,000 employees, says it won’t fill 200 vacancies; cites Obamacare and merger
KentuckyOne Health, which dominates the Louisville hospital market and has scores of locations across the state, says it has laid off 500 of its 15,000 employees and identified 200 vacancies...
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KentuckyOne Health announces layoffs, but not how many
Major hospital operator KentuckyOne Health says it is laying off workers, but isn’t saying how many. “The many steps we have taken so far across KentuckyOne Health to reduce our expenses...
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Bill to create panels to review medical-malpractice lawsuits passes Senate committee
UPDATE, Feb. 20: The Senate passed the bill 23-13, but House Speaker Greg Stumbo said he does not expect it to make any progress in the House. By Melissa Patrick...
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Kentucky hospitals disagree on how to battle MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant and highly contagious bacteria that plagues them
Hospitals agree that precautions must be taken to fight the potentially deadly super bug MRSA, but they differ in their approaches, Laura Ungar reports for The Courier-Journal. Swab kits are...
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Patient care, hospitals’ future at stake as smaller hospitals lag behind larger ones in electronic health records
Electronic health records have been hailed as a great boon to patients and health-care providers, but the next phase of their implementation poses obstacles for many small, independent hospitals, Jennifer...
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St. Joseph Hospital in London will pay U.S. $16.5 million to settle malpractice suits involving unnecessary heart procedures
St. Joseph Hospital in London will pay $16.5 million to the federal government to settle charges that it got money from Medicare and the federal-state Medicaid program for unnecessary heart...
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$230 million expansion at Baptist Health Lexington to provide private patient rooms and updated spaces throughout
Baptist Health Lexington, formerly Central Baptist Hospital, is undergoing a $230 million expansion that will make it better, not necessarily bigger, Dan Dickson reports for Business Lexington. The expansion will...
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UK Children’s Hospital plans to resume heart surgeries after hiatus caused by deaths of five children, departure of surgeon
The University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital plans to resume heart surgeries, following a suspension of the program prompted by the deaths of five children in 11 months and the departure...