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This is the third year federal government will apply penalties to hospitals that fall short of patient safety standards, leading one Consumers Union leader to wonder why hospitals aren’t working...
Lexington will host two health conferences in November, one focusing on immunizations and the other on health-care transparency and patient advocacy. The 2016 Kentucky Immunization Conference, titled “Educate, Immunize, Protect:...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Antibiotic-resistant infections are considered one of the gravest threats to humanity, but such infections and the deaths they cause are not routinely reported, hindering...
Dr. Tara Palmore, deputy hospital epidemiologist at theNational Institutes of Health Clinic Center, left, and Dr.Julie Segre, a geneticist with the National HumanGenome Research Institute. Both were integral inpinpointing the...
Photo by iStockphoto.com/selimaksan Interested in creating a venue for those who have been harmed while undergoing medical treatments, ProPublica, the nonprofit, investigative news organization, has set up a Facebook page...
Despite $900 million being invested in expanding the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital, its patients at do not seem all that happy with the care they receive there. In an...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued $49 million in grants to improve public health, $815,000 of which is earmarked for Kentucky. The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and...
Kentucky is in need of a single, accurate system that tracks hospital-acquired infections in order to improve health care and receive state and federal funding, an op-ed piece in The Courier-Journal contends....