Tag: rankings
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Ratings of hospitals may contradict their advertising, prompt low scorers to improve, health-care journalist says
Hospital rankings have been making news. Most recently, U.S. News and World Report ranked more than 5,000 U.S. hospitals and most in Kentucky. But the bigger news were the Centers...
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U.S. News and World Report rankings include five Kentucky hospitals; UK ranked No.1, followed by Baptist Health Louisville
U.S. News and World Report‘s annual Best Hospitals Rankings have five of Kentucky hospitals meeting the “high U.S. News standards” and ranked regionally. UK Albert B.Chandler Hospital Those hospitals were,...
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Sharing syringes isn’t like sharing a bottle or a joint; it could lead to HIV or hepatitis outbreaks, and Kentucky is most vulnerable
Map from The Guardian highlights Wolfe County. Amanda Holpuch of The Guardian took a trip to Wolfe County, perhaps the U.S. county most vulnerable to an outbreak of HIV or...
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Nonprofit says most of the 52 Kentucky hospitals it grades on patient safety got Bs and Cs, and KentuckyOne got five Ds
Kentucky Health News A nonprofit group that rates hospitals recently doled out its hospital safety scores and found that most Kentucky hospitals scored a ‘B’ or ‘C’ in overall patient...
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Bardstown hospital makes health-analytics company’s list of Top 100 Rural and Community Hospitals
Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown is the only Kentucky hospital to make the list of Top 100 Rural and Community Hospitals compiled by iVantage Health Analytics. No Kentucky hospitals made...
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Annual County Health Rankings for Kentucky show many shifts in the middle echelons, not much at the top and bottom
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The sixth annual County Health Rankings report shows little change in Kentucky’s top and bottom rankings, but there were a few surprises, with several...
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KentuckyOne Health promoting whole-food, plant-based diet, named No. 1 for heart health by U.S. news panel of experts
One in every eight Kentuckians suffers from diabetes, and the state ranks 12th in adult obesity, with 31.6 percent of its adults obese and 39 percent suffering high blood pressure,...
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There’s a big difference in hospitals, as various ranking systems show; op-ed analyzes the leading hospitals in Kentucky
Being a responsible health consumer requires some homework, especially when it comes to choosing a hospital, but if you wait until the emergency occurs it is likely too late to...
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Ky. inches up in national health ranking, due to more coverage, HPV vaccination; but at 44th, it still has much work to do
Graphics are from America’s Health Ranking report By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky ranked in the bottom 10 states for 12 of the 34 measures ranked by the 2015...
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Kids Count, with county data, reminds Ky. of much work to do: we’re 1st in smoking by pregnant mothers; 25% of kids in poverty
The annual Kentucky Kids Count report on the well-being of the state’s children says that we lead the nation in smoking by pregnant mothers, that one in four Kentucky children...