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Increased contact with bats leads to more rabies vaccinations in N. Ky.; health officials say all encounters should be reported
Harlan County Schools look for school-nurse help after county health department, which had done it for free, asks for $10,000
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School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues
School districts in Kentucky have long relied on county health departments for school nurses, but state budget cuts and problems with Medica...
Seven Ky. communities get grants to reduce risks for chronic diseases among children and 'Invest in Kentucky's Future'
The school health services gamble: Ky. health departments could win on the state's bet against Kentucky Spirit's appeal of ruling
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s health departments may soon get money for school nurses, based on a court ruling in May th...
Free HIV testing available from health departments and community-based health groups in June; key to AIDS prevention
In honor of National HIV Testing Day on June 27, community-based organizations and local health departments are hosting free HIV testing thr...
Knox County converting ambulance tax, taking 3/8 of health tax and asking library for same in order to save hospital
Health departments raise, or try to raise, tax rates to offset state cuts, higher benefit costs and Medicaid payment problems
Some county health departments are trying, and others may try, to increase property-tax rates to make up for Medicaid shortfalls, program cu...
Public Health Week theme: It's a good investment, saving lives and money
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State Health Department gets diabetes prevention funding; will focus on prediabetes detection and lifestyle changes
The state Department for Public Health has been awarded a $134,380 federal grant to help reduce high rates of prediabetes and Type 2 diabe...
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Health departments in N. Ky. and Franklin County are among the first 11 in the nation to be accredited, a milestone in public health
Three Kentucky departments are among the first 11 in the nation to receive accreditation from the national Public Health Accreditation Board...
Three Kentucky health departments in first group up for national accreditation; requires local health assessment, improvement plan
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Three Kentucky health departments are among the first in the nation to be considered for national acc...
Some Christian Co. health board members balk at director's idea of using $100,000 of $2.4 million reserve for recreational trail
The director of the Christian County Health Department urged its board to give $100,000 from reserves to fund a rail-to-trail project to pr...
Health departments prepare for challenges posed by health-care reform law
No one really has a clue what changes from the health-care reform law will mean to Kentuckians and public health departments are preparing f...
School nurses start getting scarcer, due to Medicaid problems
Among health providers having difficulty with Medicaid managed care, Cumberland Valley District Health Department stands out
The financial struggle that recently led to 14 layoffs and an increase in furlough days for the Cumberland Valley District Health Department...
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Health agencies in Rockcastle, Jackson, Clay, Harlan to lose 14 employees, some environmental and food-safety inspections
Kentucky's week-long brand of flu now called 'widespread'
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
