The urge to merge hospitals is driven by health care reform
Mergers that are creating large hospital groups in Kentucky are part of a national trend being driven in part by last year’s health-care reform law. There are three key reasons...
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Mergers that are creating large hospital groups in Kentucky are part of a national trend being driven in part by last year’s health-care reform law. There are three key reasons...
The University of Kentucky announced Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health had awarded it $20 million over five years to help move research discoveries from the laboratory to the...
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted information about hospital-acquired conditions on its website, and The Courier-Journal not only has a story about it today, it...
They still haven’t agreed on how to spell “health care,” and don’t do it as we do, but the partnership announced last November between UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare to...
Louisville doctors have helped a woman with an extremely rare type of dwarfism deal with the deterioration caused by her disorder. Monica Zaring, who is one of just two women...
The construction and expansion at UK HealthCare, which comprises the University of Kentucky‘s College of Medicine and Albert B. Chandler Hospital, is giving Lexington a fiscal boost in an otherwise...
Many of Kentucky’s 132 hospitals will lose money and be forced to merge because of the new health care law, says the president and CEO of the Kentucky Hospital Association....
Adair County Hospital‘s board of directors was wrong to hold a closed-session discussion about the future of an interim CEO because the discussion was about his retention, not posible discipline...
The closing of the maternity ward at Mary Breckinridge Hospital in Hyden last year is part of a larger trend, leading to fewer options for women living in rural areas...
Following the nationwide trend of independent hospitals joining larger organizations in order to stay viable, Hyden’s Mary Breckinridge Hospital will be acquired by Appalachian Regional Healthcare. ARH and the Frontier...