Tag: state government
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Lobbying on bills to require prescriptions for meds like pseudoephedrine intensifies in Kentucky and West Virginia
The lobbying battle over meds and meth is ramping up in Kentucky and West Virginia, with business interests weighing in against it in Kentucky. The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce issued...
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Williams says he supports a statewide smoking ban
State Senate President David Williams expressed firm support for the proposed statewide smoking ban at the Kentucky Press Association‘s forum for gubernatorial candidates in Louisville Friday. “Secondhand smoke is full of...
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Poor conditions found at Letcher County personal-care home
State inspectors found pitiable conditions when they visited Golden Years Rest Home, right, in Letcher County in December, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Beth Musgrave and Valarie Honeycutt-Spears report. Kool-Aid dripping on...
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Federal grant will help build assisted-living and hospice facility in Maysville
Gov. Steve Beshear presented a $800,000 community development block grant (federal money administered by the states) for the construction of a Maysville assisted-living facility and hospice inpatient facility Friday, The Ledger Independent...
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Legislator wants to make hospitals, health care facilities report infections acquired by patients under their care
In the face of strong opposition from Kentucky hospitals, a Democratic legislator has filed a bill that would require all health-care facilities to report the incidence of infections acquired by patients...
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Congressman weighs in on state issue, supporting prescription rule for cold medicines used to make methamphetamine
Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky’s 5th District is backing state legislation that would require a prescription for the sale of medicines like pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the...
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Health reform will be difficult to implement, as faceoff between insurers and state official showed
Huffington Post contributor Don McNay, right, of Richmond, writes that states will adopt health-care reform “kicking and screaming,” as shown by the Kentucky insurance commissioner’s recent face-off with insurance companies over children’s...
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State legislator wants to mandate drug testing for recipients of Medicaid, food stamps and other entitlements
A Republican legislator wants to make recipients of government entitlement programs, including Medicaid, take random drug tests in order to keep getting help. House Bill 208, which proposes the drug screening,...
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Flu is now widespread in Kentucky
Flu activity is now widespread in Kentucky, WKYT-TV reports. “It has just reached the category of widespread,” Kentucky Health Commissioner Dr. William Hacker told the Lexington station. “It can be...
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Local ordinances have set the stage for statewide smoking-ban legislation, advocates say; poll shows a clear majority support it
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Though advocates of anti-smoking laws don’t believe a statewide smoking ban will pass in the General Assembly this year, they see public support for...