Tag: rural health
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Hopkinsville paper examines doctor shortage, reasons for it
Albert Delaney waits for his wife Agnes in Hopkinsville.(Photo by Kentucky New Era’s Tom Kane) Nick Tabor of the Kentucky New Era examines Christian County’s doctor shortage, with the area...
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Nurse anesthetists no longer need to be supervised in Ky.
Kentucky will be the 17th state to opt out of a federal requirement that requires nurse anesthetists to be supervised by a physician, a move that Gov. Steve Beshear said...
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Appalachian Regional Healthcare asks federal judge to make managed-care firm keep it under contract
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a hospital chain in Eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia, is seeking an emergency injunction by a federal judge ordering Coventry Cares to let its Kentucky members...
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Online training could help rural doctors offer better mental health care
More than half of all U.S. mental health care takes place at the primary-care level, and that percentage is even higher in rural areas, where mental-health doctors are often hundreds...
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Need for painkillers and social support, shortage of treatment programs, feeds prescription drug abuse in Appalachian Ky.
By Ivy Brashear Kentucky Health News Taking opioids is still the best way to treat patients with pain, but the drugs are addictive because they do more than just alleviate...
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More foreign-born doctors practice in rural areas, come from poor nations; Kentucky is about average, West Virginia is high
More than 15 percent of physicians in the U.S. received training in lower-income countries, including India, Pakistan and the Phillippines, a new study has found, reports Lori Kersey of The Charleston Gazette....
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Rural newspapers don’t write a lot of health stories — but they should, expert says
“If a newspaper can’t stand for better health and better health care, then what in the world can it stand for?” This was the galvanizing statement of a talk today...
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Rural newspapers have power to influence people’s health, but few health articles are being published in Kentucky, study finds
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Though studies suggest that newspapers can influence people’s decisions about their health and can even lead to public-policy changes, for the most part Kentucky’s...
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Affordable Care Act helping families, seniors in rural areas, agriculture secretary says on its second anniversary
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is already making an impact, including for people who live in rural America. That was the message from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today...
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Growing up on farm helps immune system, study of pigs shows
For the first time, there is conclusive evidence that growing up on a farm is good for the immune system. Researchers from the University of Bristol’s veterinary sciences school have...