EVENTS – Kentucky Health News

Annual health-policy forum Oct. 11 in Lexington will focus on health-care workforce shortage; discount hotel rate expires Mon.

A strong and robust health-care workforce is fundamental to ensuring access to high-quality care, but many areas of Kentucky have a shortage of this vital resource. Kentucky’s health-care workforce shortage...

By Heather Close Published September 18, 2023 EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Kentucky Opioid Symposium will be held Oct. 9-10 in Lexington

Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission will host what it calls its inaugural opioid symposium Oct. 9 and 10 in Lexington. The two-day conference will feature presentations...

By Heather Close Published September 11, 2023 DRUGS, EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Overdose Awareness Day was opportunity to raise awareness and reduce stigma of drug use; now it’s National Recovery Month

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Each year, the last day of August is observed as International Overdose Awareness Day, to raise awareness of overdoses, acknowledge the grief felt by...

By Heather Close Published September 5, 2023 DRUGS, EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Community professionals who work with Kynect have a new online resource to connect them with resources and each other

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new website called KyLoop has launched to provide an online connection space for community professionals who work in outreach and enrollment through Kynect,...

By Heather Close Published August 28, 2023 EVENTS, HEALTH BUSINESS, YOUR HEALTH

State and advocates try to keep eligible Kentuckians on Medicaid

By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Some patients find out they’ve been dropped from Medicaid when they come in to pick up a prescription. Others, when they arrive for a doctor’s...

By Heather Close Published August 28, 2023 EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Kentucky Association of Health Plans is offering free rides at Kentucky State Fair to people who get vaccinated at its site there

he Kentucky Association of Health Plans is hosting its third annual vaccination pop-up clinic at the Kentucky State Fair and while supplies last, will give away free, unlimited ride wristbands...

By Heather Close Published August 21, 2023 EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

‘Disrupting Addiction: A KET Forum’ premieres Monday, July 24, to discuss the work being done to ease this public-health crisis

Kentucky Health News According to the state’s annual Overdose Fatality Report, 2,135 Kentuckians died from a drug overdose in 2022. That was 5 percent fewer than in 2021, but many...

By Heather Close Published July 24, 2023 DRUGS, EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Advocates of using psychedelic drug ibogaine to treat addiction say its risks to the heart can be mitigated in a controlled study

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission held its first public hearing Monday, July 17, to discuss funding development of an opioid-use disorder treatment using...

By Heather Close Published July 20, 2023 DRUGS, EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

‘Understanding autism: A KET Forum’ premieres June 27

Autism, which is a complicated and often misunderstood neurological and developmental disorder, will be the subject of a forum on KET at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, June 27 and on...

By Heather Close Published June 20, 2023 EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Rabbi at dedication of pandemic memorial says ‘Denial can never cure disease, and … distortions can never change facts’

Wednesday’s dedication of the state’s pandemic memorial closed with a prayer from Rabbi David Wirtschafter of Lexington’s Temple Adath Israel, who first read his adaptation of Archibald MacLeish’s poem “The...

By Heather Close Published May 25, 2023 CORONAVIRUS, EVENTS, FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH

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