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Community paramedics program could help provide primary-care services, help address state's provider shortage

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Next spring, the  Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services  could establish a community paramedics pilot program that has the potential ...

Rural doctors need to support recruitment of more colleagues, former Leitchfield hospital administrator writes

Posted by | 12:11 PM
With Kentucky's doctor shortage about to be exacerbated by expansion of the Medicaid program and federally subsidized health insurance, ...

Hospital and insurance chiefs say health reform will improve Ky.'s health care and its health, after bumps in road

Posted by | 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...

As health care expands and more providers are needed, pressure grows to allow nurse practitioners more prescribing authority

Posted by | 4:10 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As Kentucky expands Medicaid and implements the Affordable Care Act, more Kentuckians will have healt...

AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges

Posted by | 8:49 PM
Despite the mixed messages from many physicians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine ...

Family physicians group objects to cuts to primary-care physician training programs; cites doctor shortage, which is worse in Ky.

Posted by | 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....

Lexington internist, Dr. Ardis Hoven, becomes president of the AMA, the nation's largest physician organization

Posted by | 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...

Doctor shortage news: Residencies are filling the pond with primary care doctors, but U.S. and Ky. need an ocean of them

Posted by | 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...

Physician assistants and some doctors urge lawmakers to pass bill that could ease provider shortage in rural Kentucky

Posted by | 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...

National Rural Health Day to be celebrated Nov. 15 with free week-long issue-based webinar series

Posted by | 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 ...