Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
The bankrupt Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia is now called T.J. Health Columbia, after its purchase last week by T.J. Samson Community Hospital of Glasgow. The lack of the word...
Part of the reason for news coverage of health topics is to help readers, listeners and viewers live healthier lives. That usually requires a change in their behavior, which doesn’t...
In a state where more than one of every four adults smoke, tobacco is an issue in every county, but it’s rare for weekly newspapers to take a detailed look...
Wikipedia map: Carter County The Journal-Times, the weekly newspaper in Carter County, is running an online “poll” of reader opinions about the proposed statewide smoking ban and finding a slim...
The Kentucky Psychological Association recently recognized Kentucky Health News Publisher Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky, for “his outstanding career...
Newspaper readers in Appalachian Kentucky rarely had the opportunity to read factual, impartial information about health-care reform in the two months before the new health-insurance system opened for enrollment. That...
The Jessamine Journal did a story this week that every Kentucky newspaper can do, spotlighting the local impacts of Medicaid expansion under federal health reform and federal tax credits for...
The editor of an Eastern Kentucky newspaper has joined an advocacy group’s call for residents in his county to make simple, healthy lifestyle changes, serving as an example of how...
Journalists who have reported about rural health in the past year should start sifting through their clippings. The Kentucky Rural Health Association is awarding four writers $100 each for their...