Tag: wellness
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Lexington council turns to wellness center to cut insurance costs
Following a national trend to improve employee health so companies can cut health-insurance costs, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council agreed Tuesday to set up a wellness center for city employees....
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Four state agencies give employees time to exercise at work
Update, Sept. 2: A new study has shown giving employees time to exercise during their work day could lead to increased productivity, as reported in the Journal of Occupational and...
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Medicaid matters, and makes people healthier, study finds, contradicting argument that it’s worse than no coverage
Though the overhaul of Kentucky’s Medicaid program has its critics and could potentially be confusing to patients, the program itself is very important, acording to a new study. It found...
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Well-being index gives rankings for Kentucky’s congressional districts and metropolitan areas; some are very bad
In keeping with its second-to-last state ranking in the 2010 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which assessed people’s physical and emotional health across the country, one of Kentucky’s congressional districts and its...
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Kentuckians among least happy and least healthy in U.S.
Kentuckians are among the least happy and healthy citizens in the country, with the state ranking second lowest in a survey that rates the emotional and physical health of Americans....
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Humana reinvents itself again, to adapt to U.S. health-care reform
Humana, Kentucky’s largest corporation, says it is reinventing itself in the wake of the federal health reform law, focusing on becoming a “well-being” company rather than just a provider of...