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The state Department for Public Health has launched a new one-stop website for information on Covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. “As we continue into the fall and winter cold and flu...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Donovan Blackburn, CEO of Pikeville Medical Center, is the latest winner of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy Award for his work...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky, especially its Appalachian counties, continues to be a hotbed of the opioid epidemic. But it is also a leader in fighting it, and...
Kentucky Children’s Hospital, part of the University of Kentucky, will open a facility with four pediatric specialty clinics Monday, Oct. 16 in Lexington. A university press release said the four...
State Senate President Robert Stivers received the Innovative Healthcare Leader Award from the state Council on Postsecondary Education at its Workforce Collaboratory awards luncheon in Lexington Tuesday. “The award celebrates Stivers’...
The University of Louisville has received a $16 million federal grant help train more primary-care physicians in rural and urban areas that need more doctors who focus on family medicine,...
Kentucky Health News Americans spend $4.3 trillion a year looking after their health. That is 17% of the nation’s gross domestic product, “twice as much as the average in other...
Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky is one of seven institutions that are getting about $20 million each in federal money over the next four years to examine the...
Baptist Health, Kentucky’s largest hospital chain, is at odds with another major health insurer over payments for patients covered by its Medicare Advantage and group retiree plans. “United Healthcare, the...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The American Association of Retired Persons‘ latest Long-term Services and Supports Scorecard, three years after the Covid-19 pandemic, ranks Kentucky 42nd in the nation....