Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton. The clinic, one of two in...
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U.S. Rep. Andy Barr U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton. The clinic, one of two in...
More than 250 people have signed a petition asking the University of Kentucky hospital “to make public the mortality rates for pediatric cardiothoracic surgery patients from 2010, 2011 and 2012,”...
Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical director of the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will be presenting to Kentucky-based Health Watch USA on July 31 at 5 p.m., and...
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is seeking nominations for this year’s recipient of the Dan Martin Award, an annual honor for an individual who has provided many years of service...
Patients too often leave the hospital without knowing how to care for themselves, leading to a preventable return. Here are tips to improve your chances of a successful recovery at...
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The prescription-painkiller epidemic stems partly from an evolution of society’s views toward pain and how to deal with it, said experts at “The Different...
The Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, which includes much of Northern Kentucky, is included as one of three regions to participate in a program designed to bolster availability of...
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents, including infections that patients acquired in hospitals, occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, 2008....
In July, Kentucky started making long-time holders of certain controlled-substances prescriptions submit to urine tests to determine if they were actually taking the drugs, rather than selling them. Because insurance companies...
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...