Tag: open records
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Judge rules University of Louisville’s hospital is public and subject to Open Records Act; it may appeal
The University of Louisville‘s hospital is a public entity, a Jefferson Circuit Court judge has ruled in a lawsuit filed to get access to the university’s deals with other health...
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Six of 41 child-abuse fatalities show improper follow-up by Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Herald-Leader analysis finds
The way child-abuse deaths are reviewed in Kentucky continues to be problematic. Looking at the 41 child fatalities in 2009 and 2010, Lexington Herald-Leader reporters Beth Musgrave and Bill Estep...
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Beshear to have outside panel review cases of children killed or life-threatened by abuse
An independent panel of experts will review cases of children who have been killed or severely hurt by child abuse or neglect, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Monday. The panel will have...
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This is Child Abuse Awareness Month; tips for prevention
April is child abuse awareness month, and the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services is reminding Kentuckians that it’s the law to report suspected child abuse or neglect. “Protecting our children...
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House committee approves panel to investigate child-abuse deaths; findings would be closed to public
An independent panel of experts would look into the deaths of abused and neglected children and then give recommendations to state officials for how to improve its child-protection system. That...
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Judge orders Cabinet for Health and Family Services to speed up its release of child-abuse records
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services has been given 90 days to release thousands of pages pertaining to about 180 cases of children who died or were badly injured...
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Health and family cabinet continues to withhold more information in copies of child abuse records than judge allowed
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services released three more death and near-death cases involving child abuse or neglect Friday under court order, but continued to withhold critical information. It has...
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University Hospital files suit saying it is not public; could affect merger, open records
Attorney General Jack Conway may have ruled it a public entity and thus subject to open-records laws, but University Hospital officials are insisting that’s not the case and have filed...
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Federal agency is pressured to re-post online database of doctors’ malpractice and disciplinary cases
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley has joined journalists, academic researchers and consumer groups in calling on the Health Resources and Services Administration to put back online the National Practitioner Data Bank,...
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University Hospital is public, not private, so state has say on merger, Conway says
Louisville’s University Hospital is a public institution, not a private one, which means the state gets a say about the proposed merger between the hospital, Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s...