Tag: patients
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531 deficiencies found in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in first quarter of 2012; worst one had 29; five had none
State inspectors found 531 deficiencies in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in the first quarter of this year, with one facility accounting for 29 of them alone: Life Care Center of...
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100 Kentucky hospitals join network to improve patient safety, fight hospital-acquired conditions such as infections
To help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions and hospital-acquired infections, 100 of Kentucky’s 131 hospitals have joined the Kentucky Hospital Association‘s hospital engagement network. The group’s goal is to help hospitals...
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Legislators hear about serious problems in managed-care system
The switch to the new Medicaid managed-care system is proving to be a nightmare, health officials told lawmakers Wednesday, with long delays in payment to providers and treatment for patients....
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Move to managed care involves a steep learning curve, patients and providers tell Noelle Hunter of The Morehead News
Patients and providers are “ascending a steep learning curve as they implement Medicaid managed care,” reports Noelle Hunter in a two-part series in The Morehead News. Even for a proactive...
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Health literacy is ‘at a tipping point’ as an issue to be confronted, federal official tells second Kentucky Health Literacy Summit
By Tara Kaprowy, Kentucky Health News BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The idea that people will be healthier if they can better navigate the boggy, confusing landscape of health care and...