Tag: mental health
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Daytime mental-health programs shrink, citing problems with managed-care Medicaid; pastoral counselors to be licensed
Access to daytime mental-health care “is on a steep decline in Kentucky, leaving what some fear is a gap in care that isolates the mentally ill at home or drives...
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July is Minority Mental Health Month; experts discuss mental-health complications among African Americans
By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News July is Minority Mental Health Month. KET‘s Renee Shaw interviewed Sycarah Fisher, associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky,...
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Psychiatric patients’ demand for emergency-room care presents a problem the Affordable Care Act won’t solve
Psychiatric patients’ demand for emergency-room care has been a concern in hospitals, and it’s going to get worse. Even though ERs are not properly equipped to help psychiatric patients, people...
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KET’s ‘Safe and Sound: Raising Emotionally Healthy Children in a Stressful World’ premieres April 17, first airs April 21
Though new parents often have access to many resources of information on how to care for their children physically, they are usually not as well-informed about raising them to be...
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Group overseeing effort to make state healthier hears of ‘dire need,’ tools for improvement
Kentucky’s health is “in dire need of improvement,” but the state has some tools to do that, including health-care reform and the insurance program for its own employees, the group...
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Beshear budget would expand oral health, cancer screening, brain-injury treatment and alternatives to institutionalization
Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposed state budget includes money to expand oral health programs, screening for cervical and breast cancer, treatment for Kentuckians with brain injuries and programs to held disabled...
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New Medicaid enrollees show better mental health already, from relief of stress, after getting their first health coverage
Though enrollment in private insurance under federal health reform has been slower in Kentucky and other states than advocates hoped, Medicaid enrollment has skyrocketed in the state and others that...
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Haynes says Obamacare may drive down Ky.’s health ranking initially because so many uninsured have gone undiagnosed
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s low health rankings may get lower before they go up, both because of the state’s expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform, the...
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Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the ‘new asylums,’ Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky’s prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it’s part of a growing national problem. “America’s lockups are its new asylums,” Gary...
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Laurel True, longtime advocate for health, education and human services, dies suddenly at 80
Laurel W. True, who continued his public service for health and other causes long after leaving state government, died suddenly Saturday at his home near Waddy in Shelby County. He...