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Prescriptions for better health care and health: empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration

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By Melissa Patrick University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications The importance of empowering patients, increasing heal...

Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals

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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is th...

Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton

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U.S. Rep. Andy Barr U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic ...

School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues

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School districts in Kentucky have long relied on county health departments for school nurses, but state budget cuts and problems with Medica...

LaRue County High School collaborates with university and nursing home to offer nurse-aide training course

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Fifteen students at LaRue County High School have signed up for a new nurse's aide class offered in coordination with Campbellsville Un...

Frontier Nursing University in Hyden helps bring better family health care to rural America with distance learning

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Midwives and nurse practitioners who recently graduated from Frontier Nursing University  in Hyden address the unique challenges of rural ar...

School nurses start getting scarcer, due to Medicaid problems

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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Students in many Kentucky counties will find it harder to see a school nurse due to changes in the st...