Tag: school nurses
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Telemedicine helps reduce waits for mental-health patients in ER and provides better health-care access in schools
Health professionals have used telemedicine to help delay Alzheimer’s disease and reduce hearing loss in Appalachia, especially among children. Now the new approach is helping students access health care, and mental-health...
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Bills to allow school personnel to administer insulin are result of lack of funding to pay for nurses in schools
Reflecting a shortage of school nurses and Kentucky’s higher-than-average prevalence of diabetes, a bill in the new legislative session would allow school personnel to administer insulin and otherwise treat diabetes symptoms...
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Some schools let kids with live head lice stay; policy change has some Kentucky parents scratching their heads
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News School districts across the country are adopting policies that say students diagnosed with live head lice or nits (louse eggs) can remain in school...
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School nurses are an unfunded mandate for schools, which are picking up more of their cost as health department budgets shrink
Marion County nurse Renee Schooling helps Levi Hardin, a Marion County first grader with diabetes, check his blood sugar. (Lebanon Enterprise Photo by Stevie Lowery) Kentucky school nurses are stretched thin across...
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School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues
School districts in Kentucky have long relied on county health departments for school nurses, but state budget cuts and problems with Medicaid reimbursements have squeezed the health agencies, and they...
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LaRue County High School collaborates with university and nursing home to offer nurse-aide training course
Fifteen students at LaRue County High School have signed up for a new nurse’s aide class offered in coordination with Campbellsville University and a local nursing home through which students...
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The school health services gamble: Ky. health departments could win on the state’s bet against Kentucky Spirit’s appeal of ruling
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s health departments may soon get money for school nurses, based on a court ruling in May that said Medicaid managed-care firm Kentucky Spirit must pay for treatments...
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Judge orders Medicaid managed-care firm to pay for school health services, including $8 million in claims; appeal possible
Medicaid managed care company Kentucky Spirit must cover preventive care services provided by local health departments in schools, a judge has ruled. Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd of Frankfort said the...
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School nurses start getting scarcer, due to Medicaid problems
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Students in many Kentucky counties will find it harder to see a school nurse due to changes in the state Medicaid program and lack...
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Kentucky ranks third among the states in child obesity, a problem that has a broad scope and deep roots (first in a series)
(Photo by Tara Kaprowy for Kentucky Health News) By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News At every Girl Scouts meeting, Christmas concert, soccer field and swimming pool in Kentucky lies a...