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The Kentucky Hospital Association‘s annual Workforce Survey Report says Kentucky suffers from an “acute shortage” of health care workers, with nearly 13,000 job vacancies in ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 4:51 pm
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The state Department for Public Health’s weekly respiratory virus update, released Thursday, Nov. 2, showed that Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity was moderate, ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Monday, November 6, 2023 10:30 am
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One in four Kentucky adults in a poll taken in 2020 said they had ever been diagnosed with depression, a higher share than in any ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Friday, September 1, 2023 11:33 am
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Sixteen of Kentucky’s 72 rural hospitals are at risk of closing, and 10 of those are at immediate risk of closing, according to the latest ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Monday, August 7, 2023 11:30 am
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Exceptional Living Centers of Lexington, which operates several Kentucky nursing homes. “has agreed to close two of its Louisville facilities, displacing roughly 200 people, after state ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Monday, June 19, 2023 10:35 am
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Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman announced $40 million in federal funding is coming to Kentucky schools to support and expand access to school-based mental health services, ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Thursday, June 1, 2023 12:30 pm
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The legislature’s Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee voted May 9 to find Gov. Andy Beshear’s new regulations to expand Medicaid’s vision, dental and hearing services deficient, ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Monday, May 29, 2023 2:00 pm
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Kentuckians on Medicaid need to pay attention to any correspondence from the state’s Medicaid program. The Department for Medicaid Services has resumed its annual renewal ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Friday, May 19, 2023 2:00 pm
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The University of Kentucky’s Rural Physician Leadership Program is designed to increase the number of doctors in rural Kentucky, with graduates like Pike County native ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Monday, May 15, 2023 12:30 pm
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People 60 and older now have access to the first approved vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus. The vaccine, developed by GlaxoSmithKline, is called Arexvy and was approved ...
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by Kentucky Health News, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:40 am
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