Tag: rural health
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National Rural Health Day to be held Nov. 21, including webinars on current topics
The third annual National Rural Health Day, which brings awareness to rural health issues and current efforts in addressing these issues, will be observed with events nationwide and special presentations...
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Information session on state health insurance exchange to be offered at Paducah Thursday, Nov, 7
The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky’s online health insurance exchange, KYnect, Nov. 7 at the West Kentucky Community and...
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Fighting prescription drug abuse? Save your spot for ‘The Difference Faces of Substance Abuse’ conference Jan. 28-29
Early registration is open for the 2014 Different Faces of Substance Abuse Conference, which seeks to build collaborations and partnerships among Kentucky community members to address the state’s prescription-drug abuse...
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Kentucky Health Cooperative partners with UK HealthCare, extending coverage to all 120 Kentucky counties
As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, the state’s new non-profit insurance carrier, expanded its coverage Wednesday to the University of Kentucky’s network of...
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Anthem gift will let Kentucky Homeplace expand diabetes self-management and education project to counties in Western Ky.
Kentucky Homeplace has been awarded a second gift of $150,000 from the Anthem Foundation to continue its diabetes self-management education project in Appalachian Kentucky counties that have high rates of...
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Federal report says many hospitals wouldn’t keep critical-access designation if distance rules were strictly enforced
More than two dozen Kentucky communities still have hospitals because of the critical-access hospital program, in which small, isolated hospitals get higher Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements in return for limiting...
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Smokers, take note: Chinese meditation technique offers hope
In 2010, Kentucky had the second highest rate of adult smokers in the U.S., with 24.8 percent of the adult population — or 1.1 million adults — smoking, according to...
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Free medical screenings, dental work for teens and adults available in Mayfield through Tuesday
West Kentuckians in need of health care can get free medical, dental and optical screenings through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at the old Morgan Haugh Clinic building at 220 W. Walnut St....
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Nominees sought for award honoring lifetime in rural health
The Kentucky Rural Health Association seeks nominations for an award honoring a lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky, named for Dr. Dan Martin of the Trover Foundation in Madisonville....
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Community-based solutions to childhood obesity show signs of progress elsewhere; will Kentucky pick up on them?
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News For decades, researchers reported with alarm the increasing trend of overweight children in America, with one in three kids on the way to developing...