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...
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...
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...
Coalition for a Smoke-free Tomorrow rally at state Capitol —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s Coalition for a Smoke-free Tomorrow rallied in Frankfort Jan. 14 to call...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll shows that three out of four Kentucky adults support taxing electronic cigarettes, which is the only tobacco product...
Screenshot of Facebook post; click on the image for a larger version. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky law-enforcement agencies are getting sassy in their social-media posts...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A recent health journal article summarizes a growing body of research that refutes the oft-made claim that electronic cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful...
Kentucky health officials have reported the state’s first probable death related to use of electronic cigarettes. The commissioner of the state Department for Public Health, Dr. Angela Dearinger, said the death...