Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Sunday, March 22, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear said...
For a larger version of the infographic, click on it. —– Kentucky compares favorably with major bordering states in dealing with the coronavirus, according to recent compilations of testing and...
Sen. Max Wise presented SB 50 on Feb. 20 in the Senate. (Legislative Research Commission photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to resolve payment issues between Kentucky...
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. —– Saturday, March 21, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear,...
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is urging its members to ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, their senior U.S. senator, to include help for rural hospitals in the third coronavirus package being...
Gov. Andy Beshear showed how aggressive steps to limit social interaction can prevent deaths from a pandemic of a disease for which there is no vaccine. A reproducible version of the...
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Four more Kentucky cases...
Kentucky health department officials gathered in Frankfort Thursday, March 5 for passage of House Bill 129 out of the Senate. The bill has since gotten final passage in the House...
Sandra Wilson logged into a school-supplied iPad at Klondike Elementary in Louisville. Students are getting lessons remotely while not attending school. (Courier Journal photo by Michael Clevenger) —– By Al Cross...
Measures that are being called “drastic” and “extreme” are necessary to keep the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease from overwhelming the U.S. health-care system, according to health experts and public...