Louisville’s Our Lady of Peace opens first retail pharmacist-operated, long-acting injection clinic; will mostly treat opioid abuse
Insider Louisville photo Kentucky is again leading the nation in finding ways to combat the...
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Insider Louisville photo Kentucky is again leading the nation in finding ways to combat the...
Steve Hanson Kentucky’s biggest hospital operator, Baptist Health, is going through a shakeup. The not-for-profit firm said last week that it would lay off 288 employees, most of them at...
An analysis of two well-controlled studies estimates that the number of preventable hospital-associated deaths are over 200,000 each year, argues a commentary in the Journal of Patient Safety. In an...
A federal agency, magazines and a consulting group have compiled ratings that allow comparison of hospitals. Now Dr. Kevin Kavanagh of Somerset-based Health Watch USA has compiled the ratings, allowing...
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...
The federal government is penalizing 11 Kentucky hospitals for falling short on patient safety in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, two more than last year. Medicare has imposed...
The University of Louisville and KentuckyOne Health are ending the joint operating agreement under which KentuckyOne has managed the University Hospital and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center. “The decision...
The two big lobbies for hospitals are telling Congress and President-elect Donald Trump, who are planning to repeal and replace President Obama’s health-reform law, that “the government should help hospitals...
You go to the emergency room of a hospital, choosing it because it’s in the network of your health insurer. But then you get a big bill because the ER...