Tag: rural health
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Rural cancer survivors are less healthy than urban counterparts; 25 percent of rural cancer survivors smoke
A quarter of rural cancer survivors smoke. Cancer survivors from rural areas live less healthier lives than survivors from urban areas. That’s the diagnosis of a study by the Wake...
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Pikeville Medical Center joins Mayo Clinic Care Network
Pikeville Medical Center President Walter May and Dr. Stephen Lange, Mayo Clinic’s Southeast medical director Pikeville Medical Center joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network last week, extending the clinic’s knowledge...
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U of L’s Trover medical campus ranked among best for rural medicine education and addresing rural physician shortage
The University of Louisville School of Medicine Trover Rural Campus in Madisonville was rated third best in the nation for preparing medical students to practice in rural areas, which is critical...
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Knox County converting ambulance tax, taking 3/8 of health tax and asking library for same in order to save hospital
The Knox County Fiscal Court and the Knox County Board of Health reached a deal Monday to aid its debt-laden county hospital’s recovery from bankruptcy by diverting, at least temporarily,...
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Medicaid expansion would have ‘a big health impact,’ and critical-access hospitals need to change, rural-health expert says
Expansion of the Medicaid program under federal health-care reform would have a major beneficial impact on the health of Kentucky, a doctor who ran the state and national rural-health agencies...
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Survey shows most rural doctors in Southern Kentucky aren’t ready for electronic health records; grant will help them switch
A recent survey found that 63 percent of rural health providers in Southern Kentucky have not installed electronic health records software, so more than 280 of the small and rural...
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Death rates for heart and pneumonia patients at critical-access hospitals are rising nationally, study finds
Death rates are rising at rural critical-access hospitals for Medicare patients who have heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia, according to a study published in the Journal of the American...
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State Auditor Edelen says state must fix managed-care issues that have put rural hospitals and providers on brink of survival
State Auditor Adam Edelen said last week that shoring up the financial base for rural hospitals in Kentucky is the number one challenge to the state’s Medicaid managed-care system. The...
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Study suggesting that coal is a cause of health problems in E. Ky. is disputed by industry and politicians, defended by researcher
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A heated debate centers on new research showing that residents in Floyd County, where coal is stripped from the tops of mountains and ridges,...
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Most Kentucky adults don’t know that drug overdose is the leading cause of death in the state, but those in the east do
Drug overdoses, driven largely by prescription drug abuse, overtook motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of unintentional deaths in Kentucky back in 2010 and remain the state’s leading cause...