Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
The state Department for Public Health says infections have resulted from vaccines distributed by a Mount Sterling company to workplaces in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio since Sept. 1. Location Vaccination “provided vaccines primarily...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State Rep. Kim Moser plans a busy first meeting as chair of the House Health and Family Services Committee on Thursday, Feb. 7. She...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News HARDINSBURG, Ky. – When the Breckinridge County Fiscal Court voted unanimously in December against raising property taxes to shore up the local hospital’s empty...
One in five Kentucky households delay or forgo medical care because of the cost, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll, taken Aug. 26 through Oct. 21. The overall...
Your local ambulances may be getting fewer calls for drug overdoses, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that your local drug problems are decreasing. The Anderson News found that OD ambulance calls...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Medicaid managed care organizations and others in the health-insurance industry spent the first half of a three-hour meeting bragging about their...
The brand was removed from University of Louisville Hospital last year, and will be removed from other facilities in the city once they are sold or closed. (Image from WDRB-TV) —...
Counties where doctors got more attention and favors from drug manufacturers were more likely to have a higher rate of overdoses from prescription opioids a year later, says a new...
The University of Louisville is talking with a Nashville health-care firm to “prevent a catastrophic health-care shakeup in Louisville,” the closure of Jewish Hospital, reports Louisville’s WDRB-TV. The potential deal is “offering a new survival scenario...
Parkway Regional Hospital before it closed in 2015 — In politics, if you want to know where things are coming from and where they are headed, one maxim is to...