Tag: rural hospitals
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Community group in Hopkinsville pushes back on plans for Deaconess Health to acquire Jennie Stuart Health
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The town of Hopkinsville is one of the latest to be surprised that its local hospital is planning to join a larger health care...
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Legislative panel talks about health care with UK Board of Trustees at annual retreat
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky hosted a legislative panel on Oct. 16 focused on health care to kick off the 2024 Board of Trustees annual...
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Jennie Stuart Health in Hopkinsville signs letter of intent to join Deaconess Health System
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hopkinsville’s Jennie Stuart Health has signed a non-binding letter of intent to join Deaconess Health System, headquartered in Evansville, Ind. “Rural hospitals today are facing...
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Hospitals warn of big hit if Obamacare repeal send them lots more uninsured patients; rural hospitals at more risk
The two big lobbies for hospitals are telling Congress and President-elect Donald Trump, who are planning to repeal and replace President Obama’s health-reform law, that “the government should help hospitals...
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Study: Fulton hospital closed partly because owner preferred to invest in nearby Tenn. facility; played hardball with locals
A study of three rural hospital closures last year, including one in Kentucky, found that several factors led to the hospitals’ demise and that access to care, especially emergency care,...
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Forrest W. Calico, national leader in rural health care, dies at 75
Forrest W. Calico Dr. Forrest W. Calico, a nationally recognized expert on rural health-care quality, died Monday at his home near Crab Orchard “after striving against multiple myeloma for several...
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Stanford hospital is first in Kentucky to go back to laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, to relieve the pain of childbirth
Photo: Abigail Whitehouse, Interior Journal Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan Hospital‘s Birthing Spa in Lincoln County is the first in Kentucky to offer nitrous oxide, often called laughing gas, as an alternative...
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Struggling Tenn. hospital takes care of Kentuckians, who get better care than Tennesseans thanks to expanded Medicaid
Jellico Community Hospital, just across the Kentucky border in Tennessee along Interstate 75, was taken over by Community Hospital Corp. last May, but that’s not a guarantee it will survive, especially since...
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More Kentucky patients are recuperating in their local, rural hospitals after surgery in an urban hospital
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Rural residents are increasingly being transferred out of big urban hospitals to recuperate in rural hospitals, many of which are struggling financially and can...
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Glasgow hospital buys bankrupt one in Columbia, stops admitting patients, seeks behavioral-health unit; bad management blamed
The bankrupt Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia is now called T.J. Health Columbia, after its purchase last week by T.J. Samson Community Hospital of Glasgow. The lack of the word...