Tag: hospitals
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Medically unnecessary procedures are part of culture of disability in Eastern Kentucky, professor writes
St. Joseph London Hospital is taking heat over accusations of performing medically unnecessary cardiac catheterizations and other invasive cardiac procedures, and a look at the health data by a Kentucky...
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Tips to help avoid a preventable return trip to the hospital
Patients too often leave the hospital without knowing how to care for themselves, leading to a preventable return. Here are tips to improve your chances of a successful recovery at...
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Report: Electronic health records haven’t cut health costs
The conversion to electronic health records isn’t producing savings in health-care costs predicted by a 2005 report, and it’s had mixed results in improving efficiency and patient care, according to...
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Fiscal-cliff deal revives program that helps rural hospitals dependent on Medicare; 200 in nation, 10 in Kentucky
Even though most of the hospital industry wasn’t happy with the fiscal-cliff deal that will only pay half the $30 billion needed to avoid a 27 percent Medicare fee cut...
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Health reform drives hospital mergers and affiliations, and makes clinical collaborations more important
Is your community’s hospital one of the many rural hospitals considering sale, merger or affiliation with a larger hospital or group of hospitals, all options that are becoming more common,...
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UK has its pediatric heart program under review; chief is on leave, and patients are being referred to other hospitals
Kentucky Children’s Hospital at the University of Kentucky is reviewing its cardio-thoracic surgery program and referring surgical patients to other hospitals, “but the reasons why are unclear,” Brenna Angel reported...
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Republican legislators keep hammering state officials and managed-care companies about Medicaid payment delays
Republican lawmakers reitarated this week that the companies managing Medcaid in Kentucky are still not paying health providers promptly. According to Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro, in the year since the...
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Annual health ratings of states still puts Kentucky 44th
Kentucky ranks 44th among the 50 states in overall health in United Health Foundation‘s America’s Health Rankings. Darla Carter of The Courier-Journal reports that while this is the same rating...
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Northern Kentucky included in Medicaid’s pilot program to increase data about quality of health care
The Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, which includes much of Northern Kentucky, is included as one of three regions to participate in a program designed to bolster availability of...
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Kentucky hospitals score mostly Bs and Cs on hospital safety scorecard; most in U.S. earned an A or B
In an analysis of the nation’s hospitals and their safety records, many of Kentucky’s health care facilities have some shortcomings. A study by the Leapfrog Group finds that the vast...