Database shows the basics of each rural hospital’s finances
Want to check the financial history of your local hospital? There’s a quick and easy way to get the fundamental figures, thanks to a reporting project last year on rural...
Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Want to check the financial history of your local hospital? There’s a quick and easy way to get the fundamental figures, thanks to a reporting project last year on rural...
Analysis by Al Cross Kentucky Health News A conservative group has started television and radio commercials in Kentucky and other states thanking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others in...
Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital opened in 1953. (Ashland Daily Independent photo) —– Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in the Ashland suburb of Russell will close by Sept. 30, says the Bon Secours...
Shelley Shearer —– By Dr. Shelley Shearer There are nearly 50,000 new cases of oral cancer in the United States each year, accounting for 3 percent of all cancer diagnoses....
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Influenza has killed 21 people in Kentucky this season, two under the age of 18, according to the state Department for Public Health. The latest weekly...
medicalnewstoday.com image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to legalize marijuana for medical purposes has been filed in the Kentucky General Assembly, with great hopes by advocates...
By Trudy Lieberman Community Health News Service We know too well the cost of American health care keeps rising as far as the eye can see. In 1995 health care...
Beth Burbridge gave Jackson Alldaffer a kidney. (Courier Journal photo) —– “A woman who donated an organ to a complete stranger, then mounted a campaign to give paid leave to...
@StopFGM Twitter image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bipartisan bill to ban female genital mutilation in Kentucky unanimously passed out of committee Jan. 15...
Kendall Tubbs, Bonnie Hackbarth and Sen. Ralph Alvarado spoke for a bill to raise Kentucky’s legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21. (Photo by Melissa Patrick) —– By...