Tag: hospitals
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Several Kentucky hospitals overdo CT scans, despite cost, risk
Despite the risk of exposing patients to more radiation and the fact that radiologists say it is very rarely necessary, Medicare outpatients are regularly receiving two CT scans on the...
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The urge to merge hospitals is driven by health care reform
Mergers that are creating large hospital groups in Kentucky are part of a national trend being driven in part by last year’s health-care reform law. There are three key reasons...
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UK finally wins $20 million grant to translate medical research into action at the bedside and in the field; now ‘a member of the club’
The University of Kentucky announced Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health had awarded it $20 million over five years to help move research discoveries from the laboratory to the...
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Data on hospital-acquired infections, other conditions online
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted information about hospital-acquired conditions on its website, and The Courier-Journal not only has a story about it today, it...
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Partnership between UK and Norton extended, further defined
They still haven’t agreed on how to spell “health care,” and don’t do it as we do, but the partnership announced last November between UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare to...
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Louisville doctors help woman with extremely rare condition
Louisville doctors have helped a woman with an extremely rare type of dwarfism deal with the deterioration caused by her disorder. Monica Zaring, who is one of just two women...
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Construction, expansion at UK HealthCare boosting Lexington’s economy; total payroll now exceeds 8,700
The construction and expansion at UK HealthCare, which comprises the University of Kentucky‘s College of Medicine and Albert B. Chandler Hospital, is giving Lexington a fiscal boost in an otherwise...
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Health care reform will be costly to hospitals, Kentucky Hospital Association chief says
Many of Kentucky’s 132 hospitals will lose money and be forced to merge because of the new health care law, says the president and CEO of the Kentucky Hospital Association....
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Adair hospital board broke meetings law, attorney general finds
Adair County Hospital‘s board of directors was wrong to hold a closed-session discussion about the future of an interim CEO because the discussion was about his retention, not posible discipline...
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Fewer maternity wards, fewer options for rural Kentucky women
The closing of the maternity ward at Mary Breckinridge Hospital in Hyden last year is part of a larger trend, leading to fewer options for women living in rural areas...