Tag: hospitals
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Hospitals are not reporting cases of harm to patients; electronic health records may be key to solving the problem
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Hospitals aren’t reporting cases in which medical care harmed a patient, making it difficult for providers to identify problems and fix them, according to...
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Biggest problem with health-care reform law is advocates’ poor sales job to the American public, Rep. John Yarmuth tells C-J
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News The biggest problem with the federal health-care reform law is not the law itself, but the fact that “We’ve never done as good a...
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University Hospital cuts contribution to U of L by half
University Hospital. Photo by Bill Luster, The Courier-Journal. In the midst of financial woes, University Hospital gave just half of what it normally does to the University of Louisville Health Sciences...
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Rural health care is a notch below care in urban areas, but its costs are lower and its emergency rooms are faster, study finds
A national study has found a narrow gap between the quality of health care in rural and urban settings, but it does recognize the “significant differences” differences between urban and...
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State takes Medicaid contractor Coventry’s side at hearing over dispute with Appalachian Regional Healthcare
“Appalachian Regional Healthcare argued for a federal injunction against Medicaid contractor Coventry Cares on Tuesday as negotiations for a new agreement between the two have stalled,” reports Mike Wynn of...
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New law will allow officers to make arrests in emergency-room assaults that they do not witness
Emergency-room workers who treat individuals under the influence of drugs or alcohol will have greater legal protection, and those who misbehave in ERs will have less protection, under a law...
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Care in rural hospitals is just as good as that in urban hospitals, study concludes
While rural Americans have less access to primary care and have worse health outcomes, the care at rural hospitals is equal to, if not better, than that at urban hospitals,...
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University Hospital’s trust to pay for indigent care lacks oversight, state auditor finds
An audit of the trust that disburses more than $30 million in state and local funding to provide indigent care at University Hospital has found there is a lack of...
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100 Kentucky hospitals join network to improve patient safety, fight hospital-acquired conditions such as infections
To help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions and hospital-acquired infections, 100 of Kentucky’s 131 hospitals have joined the Kentucky Hospital Association‘s hospital engagement network. The group’s goal is to help hospitals...
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Cabinet must ‘wield the stick’ to get managed care under control, state auditor says
Though the state has a solid contract “filled with all the mechanisms you need for enforcement, from the carrots to the sticks,” the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has...