Author: Al Cross
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Hopkinsville council, absent a proponent, narrowly replaces smoking ban idea with plan to require posted smoking policies
The effort to pass a smoking ban in the largest Kentucky town without one may have hit a roadblock Thursday night. The Hopkinsville City Council forwarded a smoking ordinance that...
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Central Baptist takes over Russell County Hospital
Russell County Hospital in Russell Springs will be managed by Lexington’s Central Baptist Hospital, at least for the next three years. The deal announced this week is the latest in...
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National Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, focuses attention on need for supportive families, friends and employers
World Breastfeeding Week is Aug. 1-7, so the state Department for Public Health is pointing out the importance of providing support for breastfeeding families. “We encourage mothers to breastfeed to...
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Beshear says he will expand Medicaid if state can afford it, says ‘If we’ve got a healthier Kentucky, we’re all better off’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Steve Beshear said today that he would expand Kentucky’s Medicaid program under the federal health-reform law if the state can afford the cost....
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Are fallacies about health reform becoming accepted wisdom? Former New York Times editor Bill Keller says he fears so
“A number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom” about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, former New York Times editor Bill Keller writes for the paper....
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Lacking money, insurance and dentists, oral health takes a back seat, and many rural areas are barely on the bus
A dentist works at a Remote Area Medical Clinic in Wise, Va.(Associated Press photo by Steve Helber) Dr. Nikki Stone is a dentist who works in Hazard, Ky., at a...
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Who is on Medicaid already? Not all poor Kentuckians, foundation president says on op-ed distributed to Kentucky newspapers
By Susan Zepeda President and CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding much of the Affordable Care Act, states have many...
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If Kentucky expands Medicaid, no other state would have a larger percentage drop in the uninsured, Kaiser Commission says
“Kentucky will benefit most from the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured,” Lorie Hailey writes...
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As Beshear and Williams equivocate, Hoover and McConnell say state should not expand Medicaid under health reform
Kentucky Health News The Republican leader of the state House said today that Kentucky should not take advantage of an expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform because it would...
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Most Ky. nursing homes give more antipsychotic drugs to non-psychotic patients than U.S. median, but get little attention so far
Most Kentucky nursing homes exceeded the national average of the share of residents without psychosis or a related condition who nevertheless received antipsychotic drugs, according to federal data gathered by...