As of Jan. 1, the Christian County Health Department will not provide contraceptives or cancer screening to indigent patients if they do not reside in the county. Nick Tabor of the...
The Franklin County Health Department has laid off five employees effective today, four of those are part-time workers. The layoffs are being made in the midst of a $1.7 million...
Dr. Stephanie Mayfield Dr. Stephanie Mayfield has been appointed as the commissioner for the state Department for Public Health, making her the first woman and first African American to hold the...
Christian County’s health director told the county Board of Health last week that it “needs to spend less time on the health department’s budget and more time addressing big questions...
The swine flu of 2009, often referred to as H1NI, killed an estimated 284,500 people, making it 15 times more deadly than it was thought at the time of the...
Reduced hours and staff will be the new reality for many health departments across Kentucky starting in July as they deal with funding shortages and changes. Though the total amount...
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News A recipe for how to improve health at the local level in Kentucky was the capstone of a day-long seminar in Frankfort Monday, with...
For her work spreading the word about second-hand smoke and founding the coalition that ultimately helped Prestonsburg pass a smoke-free ordinance in 2009, Floyd County’s Jean V. Rosenberg was named...
Funding and job cuts as a result of the economic recession have weakened the impact public health departments have on their communities, says a series of articles published in the...
Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield, director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research and the Peter P. Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy at...