Kentucky’s overall emergency-care environment, including its medical-malpractice laws, is the fifth worst in the nation, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians. ACEP gave Kentucky a grade of āDā and...
Next spring, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services could establish a community paramedics pilot program that has the potential to ease the state’s shortage pf primary-care health providers. The idea was...
Kentucky is one of a few states teaming up with the National Governors Association to address the expensive problem of uninsured or Medicaid-covered “superusers” who over-use hospital emergency rooms or other...
The Fourth of July goes hand in glove with firework displays. Most families protect parents and children against the dangers of fireworks, but thousands still visit the emergency room every...
Dr. Carl Smith Jr. Almost a decade ago, Dr. Carl Smith Jr. did something that many health care providers across America are still struggling to do: He implemented electronic health...
Because cardiovascular disease kills more Kentuckians than anything else, and because what mostly kills them is a heart attack, and because if you can get help within 90 minutes of...
Dr. Andrew Bernard, chair, State Trauma Advisory Committee Ten Kentucky hospitals have been recognized as part of the state’s first official statewide trauma system. The announcement came during the 2012...
Belfry Fire and EMS responds to an accident.(Rachel Dove-Baldwin, Williamson Daily News) Volunteer emergency medical service squads appear to be dying out around the nation as rural populations change and...
Emergency-room workers who treat individuals under the influence of drugs or alcohol will have greater legal protection, and those who misbehave in ERs will have less protection, under a law...
Kentuckians on Medicaid who were displaced by last week’s storms can get a 30-day supply of needed medicine from their pharmacy, the Department of Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The right...