Posted by Admin | 3:09 PM

The Kentucky Hospital Association came out strongly for continued federal support of small, rural hospitals Thursday, objecting to a propos...

Labels: federal spending, Hospitals, Medicaid, Medicare, rural health

Posted by Admin | 7:29 AM

The third annual National Rural Health Day, which brings awareness to rural health issues and current efforts in addressing these issues, wi...

Labels: health care access, health education, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, rural health, state governments

Posted by Admin | 1:36 PM

The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky's online health in...

Labels: health education, health insurance, health reform, insurance exchange, rural health, state government

Posted by Admin | 9:28 AM

Early registration is open for the 2014 Different Faces of Substance Abuse Conference, which seeks to build collaborations and partnerships ...

Labels: addiction, drug abuse, drugs, prescription drug abuse, prescription drugs, rural health

Posted by Admin | 1:46 PM

As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare , the  Kentucky Health Cooperative , the state's new non-profit insurance car...

Labels: Affordable Care Act, health insurance, health reform, insurance, insurance exchange, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, rural health

Posted by Admin | 10:25 AM

Kentucky Homeplace has been awarded a second gift of $150,000 from the Anthem Foundation to continue its diabetes self-management educatio...

Labels: Appalachia, diabetes, education, health education, prevention, rural health, rural-urban disparities

Posted by Admin | 9:14 AM

More than two dozen Kentucky communities still have hospitals because of the critical-access hospital program, in which small, isolated hosp...

Labels: critical access hospitals, Hospitals, Medicaid, Medicare, rural health

Posted by Admin | 9:03 AM

In 2010, Kentucky had the second highest rate of adult smokers in the U.S., with 24.8 percent of the adult population -- or 1.1 million adul...

Labels: addiction, drugs, health rankings, rural health, smoking, tobacco, tobacco prevention

Posted by Admin | 4:25 PM

West Kentuckians in need of health care can get free medical, dental and optical screenings through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at the old Morgan Haugh...

Labels: cancer screening, dental care, poverty, rural health

Posted by Admin | 3:00 PM

The Kentucky Rural Health Association seeks nominations for an award honoring a lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky, named fo...

Labels: awards, rural health

Posted by Admin | 7:52 PM

By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News For decades, researchers reported with alarm the increasing trend of overweight children in America, ...

Labels: child obesity, childhood obesity, children, children's health, exercise, General Assembly, health education, legislature, nutrition, rural health, rural-urban disparities, state government

Posted by Admin | 12:56 PM

The Kentucky Rural Health Association is seeking nominations for this year's recipient of the Dan Martin Award, an annual honor for an...

Labels: awards, health education, patients, public health, rural health, rural medicine

Posted by Admin | 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....

Labels: Congress, doctor shortage, doctor shortages, doctors, federal legislation, primary care, rural health, rural medicine

Posted by Admin | 11:25 AM

By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News New research indicates that HPV, the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus, is now the leading c...

Labels: cancer, cervical cancer, HPV, human papillomavirus, prevention, rural, rural health, rural-urban disparities, vaccinations

Posted by Admin | 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...

Labels: Affordable Care Act, doctor shortage, doctor shortages, health care access, Health Care Reform, health policy, Medicaid, primary care, rural, rural health, rural medicine, rural-urban disparities

Posted by Admin | 10:40 AM

The editor of an Eastern Kentucky newspaper has joined an advocacy group's call for residents in his county to make simple, healthy life...

Labels: diabetes, exercise, health journalism, heart disease, nutrition, obesity, rural health, rural journalism, rural-urban disparities

Posted by Admin | 10:39 AM

A quarter of rural cancer survivors smoke. Cancer survivors from rural areas live less healthier lives than survivors from urban areas. That...

Labels: cancer, rural health, rural-urban disparities, smoking, tobacco, tobacco prevention

Posted by Admin | 5:33 PM

Pikeville Medical Center President Walter May and Dr.  Stephen Lange, Mayo Clinic's Southeast medical director Pikeville Medical Center ...

Labels: Appalachia, Hospitals, rural health, rural medicine

Posted by Admin | 12:54 PM

The University of Louisville School of Medicine Trover Rural Campus  in Madisonville was rated third best in the nation for preparing medica...

Labels: medical education, physician recruitment, physicians, rural health, rural medicine, rural-urban disparities, University of Louisville

Posted by Admin | 1:55 PM

The Knox County Fiscal Court and the Knox County Board of Health reached a deal Monday to aid its debt-laden county hospital's recover...

Labels: county health departments, critical access hospitals, health departments, Hospitals, rural health, taxes