Tag: hospitals
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Mary Breckinridge Hospital in Hyden is being acquired by Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Following the nationwide trend of independent hospitals joining larger organizations in order to stay viable, Hyden’s Mary Breckinridge Hospital will be acquired by Appalachian Regional Healthcare. ARH and the Frontier...
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Kentucky needs system to track hospital infections, doctor says
Kentucky is in need of a single, accurate system that tracks hospital-acquired infections in order to improve health care and receive state and federal funding, an op-ed piece in The Courier-Journal contends....
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Switch to electronic medical records not without concerns
Though touted as a way to improve patient care and supported by federal funding, Kentucky physicians have concerns about switching to electronic medical records. Doctors are worried about cost, lost...
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Rural hospitals in Kentucky say health reform will hurt them
Though the new national health-care law may increase the number of insured Americans by 32 million, rural hospitals in Kentucky aren’t expecting a revenue windfall. That’s because half of the...
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St. Joseph Health System CEO is leaving for Texas
The chief executive of Saint Joseph Health System is leaving his post June 1 to join a health group in Dallas. Eugene Woods, right, will become executive vice president and...
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Electronic health records are the new frontier in health care
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Just two years ago, the acronym EHR didn’t mean much to many people. But since Congress passed the health-care reform law last year, physicians...
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UK loses branding for high-quality nursing care
The University of Kentucky hospital has lost magnet status, a designation given to facilities that offer high-quality nursing care, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Mary Meehan reports. The recent review says UK,...
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As debt deepens and auditors arrive, Adair County hospital CEO resigns and is apparently escorted from the building
The CEO of Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia “resigned Monday morning and was apparently escorted out of the hospital,” reports the Adair County Community Voice. Rusty Tungate “and eight others...