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Community paramedics program could help provide primary-care services, help address state's provider shortage
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2:24 PM
Next spring, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services could establish a community paramedics pilot program that has the potential ...
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Rural doctors need to support recruitment of more colleagues, former Leitchfield hospital administrator writes
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12:11 PM
With Kentucky's doctor shortage about to be exacerbated by expansion of the Medicaid program and federally subsidized health insurance, ...
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Hospital and insurance chiefs say health reform will improve Ky.'s health care and its health, after bumps in road
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8:24 PM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The federal health-reform law will improve health care and help make Kentuckians healthier, though some wil...
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As health care expands and more providers are needed, pressure grows to allow nurse practitioners more prescribing authority
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4:10 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As Kentucky expands Medicaid and implements the Affordable Care Act, more Kentuckians will have healt...
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AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges
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8:49 PM
Despite the mixed messages from many physicians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine ...
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Family physicians group objects to cuts to primary-care physician training programs; cites doctor shortage, which is worse in Ky.
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6:57 PM
Facing an already-existing shortage of primary care in the country and state, the American Academy of Family Physicians sent a letter to U....
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Lexington internist, Dr. Ardis Hoven, becomes president of the AMA, the nation's largest physician organization
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7:40 AM
Ardis Dee Hoven, M.D., an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist in Lexington, was installed as president of the American Medic...
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Doctor shortage news: Residencies are filling the pond with primary care doctors, but U.S. and Ky. need an ocean of them
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7:33 PM
Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the country, only 25 percent of newly educated doctors go into this field, and even worse for...
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Physician assistants and some doctors urge lawmakers to pass bill that could ease provider shortage in rural Kentucky
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5:09 PM
Doctors and more than 150 physician-assistant students urged lawmakers Tuesday to pass a bill they stated involves dropping only one requir...
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National Rural Health Day to be celebrated Nov. 15 with free week-long issue-based webinar series
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10:44 AM
Those almost 60 million Americans who live in rural America do not have as much ready access to health care or to the vast number of health ...
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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...