Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
The 21st annual Kentucky Rural Health Association conference will be held in Bowling Green Nov. 14-15 at Western Kentucky University‘s Knicely Center, 2355 Nashville Rd. Through Friday, Nov. 1, the registration fee is $125...
Districts in white are not tobacco-free. For a larger map, click on it. —– Only 15 of Kentucky’s 172 school districts, or 8.7 percent, have not passed a tobacco-free policy...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If the courts allow Kentucky to put work and community engagement requirements in its Medicaid program, only 3 percent of the program’s beneficiaries would...
School districts throughout Kentucky will hold special events throughout October to celebrate Farm to School Month. “Farm to School helps Kentucky students get access to fresh, nutritious local foods that...
A new campaign in Louisville is working to decrease the high suicide rate among high school students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning by emphasizing the importance...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hospitals in Kentucky and across the nation are getting a reprieve, maybe a short one, from a new formula cutting the money the...
Gov. Matt Bevin has asked TV stations to take down what his campaign calls a “factually inaccurate and defamatory” commercial that says Bevin has tried to take health care away...
Left to right: Mark Carter, Sheila Schuster, Ben Chandler, LeChrista Finn —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Sheila Schuster, who has spent more than four decades advocating for those...
(L-R) Dr. Bruce Scott and Ben Chandler (Kentucky Medical Association photo) —– The Kentucky Medical Association awarded Ben Chandler, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, with its advocacy award...
Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield, a retired public-health professor at the University of Kentucky, is the recipient of this year’s top award from the American Public Health Association. Scutchfield, a native of Wheelwright...