Tag: philanthropy
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July 9 webinar will examine how to build and maintain local health coalitions
Are you interested in establishing or improving a local health coalition? Register for the next webinar in the “Health for a Change” series funded by the Foundation for a Healthy...
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Health advocates recommend teaching children benefits of healthy food, even raw, to adapt to school-meal guidelines
Health advocates say that teaching people, especially children, about nutrition and the value of new federal guidelines for school meals can help improve Kentucky’s health, Jacqueline Pitts reports for “Pure...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky reports putting 24 percent more money into grants last year than in 2012
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky made grants totaling $2,355,838 in 2013, a 24 percent increase over the 2012 total of $1,903,660, according to the annual report it released yesterday....
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UK awarded $1.9 million to improve recruitment, preparation and retention of science, tech, engineering and math students
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded the University of Kentucky a five-year, $1.9 million grant to improve retention of students in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics,...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky seeks nominations for its board and Community Advisory Committee by June 30
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is accepting nominations for qualified persons to join its board of directors and its Community Advisory Committee. The 15-member board is responsible for preserving...
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Kosair sues Norton over use of donations to Children’s Hospital; Norton says charity weaseling out of obligation
Kosair Charities, which gives more than $6 million a year to Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, has sued the hospital’s parent, Norton Healthcare, accusing it of misusing some of the...
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Anthem gives hospital group grant to improve perinatal care, including discouraging early, medically unnecessary deliveries
The foundation of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has awarded nearly $259,000 to an arm of the Kentucky Hospital Association to improve perinatal care and outcomes for mothers and their babies by...
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Obamacare in Ky.: Those who say they have enough info on how it affects them favor it; those who lack info say they don’t favor it
Kentuckians’ support of the federal health-reform law remains low, with only 30 percent saying they view it favorably and 48 percent unfavorably, but 57 percent said they didn’t have enough...
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Poll in fall found more Kentuckians reporting health coverage through employers, fewer saying they’re on public insurance
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News More Kentuckians had health insurance through their employer last year than the year before, and fewer were on public insurance, according to a statewide...
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Every Kentucky county has a local group working on health issues, foundation finds in compiling Health Coalitions Directory
For the first time, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has documented that every Kentucky county has a local group working on health issues. All 120 counties are listed in...