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Seven Ky. communities get grants to reduce risks for chronic diseases among children and 'Invest in Kentucky's Future'
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4:15 PM
Seven diverse Kentucky communities are getting money to reduce the risk of chronic disease among Kentucky's youth. The initial grants an...
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Community health centers get federal grants to hire employees to help you shop for health insurance coverage
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4:17 PM
Kentucky's online health insurance exchange, Kynect , opens Oct. 1, 2013, and most Kentuckians must have health insurance by January of...
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Working with a local, regional or state health coalition? A simple step can help make healthy changes in Kentucky
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1:02 PM
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is asking you to help update last year's Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory, a list of local gro...
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smoking ban
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smoking ordinances
Managed care, pension payments causing problems for community mental health centers; Edelen, C-J call for changes
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7:33 PM
"Kentucky mental health centers are cutting back services and struggling to assist patients the first time they’re admitted because of...
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Kentucky hospitals gave $1.96 billion to communities in 2011, including $576.7 million cover of Medicare, Medicaid shortfalls
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3:31 PM
In 2011, despite economic and financial obstacles, Kentucky hospitals' estimated value of benefits to their communities up 17 percent fr...
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University of Louisville
When Does Lavish Executive Compensation Become "Embezzlement?"
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2:28 PM
A single article in the Miami Herald raises the question of when is excessive executive compensation in health care too excessive. To set ...
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
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...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
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Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
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Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
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Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
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Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
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...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...