Tag: hospitals
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Medicaid expansion brings increased revenue to hospitals, but has also created different financial challenges
Kentucky’s hospitals have seen a $1 billion increase in revenues since the expansion of Medicaid and the launch of Kynect, the state’s health insurance exchange program, but the influx of...
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Clinton County Hospital in Albany gets most of its USDA debt forgiven, but is still in bankruptcy and is seeking a buyer
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has forgiven more than half the debt owed it by the Clinton County Hospital, which has been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since last...
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Beshear keeps up defense of Obamacare, McConnell gives only a short rebuttal at State Fair breakfast
Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell traded views on health-care reform at the Kentucky Farm Bureau‘s country-ham breakfast at the Kentucky State Fair, but McConnell made...
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Patient portals at Leitchfield hospital are breached in cyber attack; officials say it did not involve any data in state system
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center‘s patient portals were the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, which may have breached protected patient...
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Man with heavy chicken pox and recent foreign travel prompts Danville hospital to close ER, say very little to local newspaper
Police guard emergency area. (Advocate-Messenger photo) An adult patient with a heavy case of chicken pox and a recent history of international travel prompted Ephraim McDowell Memorial Hospital in Danville...
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Consumer Reports releases annual hospital-acquired infection report; some Ky. hospitals have work to do; state to get data
A new study from Consumer Reports has analyzed hospital-acquired infection data for thousands of hospitals across the U.S. and rated them on how well they prevented these infections. Not all...
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Baptist Health Lexington is Ky.’s best hospital in U.S. News and World Report hospital rankings for second year in a row
For the second consecutive year, Baptist Health Lexington is recognized as Kentucky’s best hospital by U.S. News & World Report. It was also recognized as a nationally ranked hospital for...
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More dental patients using ERs, showing lack of dental coverage, shortage of dentists and the stepchild status of oral health
More patients are going to hospital emergency rooms for dental care, illustrating how oral health remains the stepchild of the health system despite health-care reform. “An analysis of the most...
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Half again as many Kentucky newborns were hospitalized for drug dependency last year as the year before
Mother Samantha Adams and her newborn Leopoldo Bautista,10 days old, spend quality time inside the Louisville NortonHealthcare child care center for children experiencing drugwithdrawal. (Photo by Alton Strupp, The Courier-Journal) Increasing...
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Dr. Steven J. Stack of Lexington is sworn in as 170th president of the American Medical Association
Dr. Steven J. Stack, an emergency physician practicing in Lexington, was sworn in as the 170th president of the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician organization. Dr. Steven J....