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Wagner, left, with Foundation President and CEO Chandler —– William Wagner, retired CEO of Family Health Centers of Louisville, is the latest winner of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy...
Screenshot of flyer; for registration information, click here. —– By Melissa Patrick Ky. Health News The Kentucky Rural Health Association is devoting a one-day conference to discuss a vaccine that can protect against...
American Association of Nurse Practitioners map, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a path for Kentucky’s advanced practice registered nurses to...
Rep. Steve Sheldon —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Many Kentucky lawmakers keep siding with independent pharmacies against pharmacy benefit managers, the insurance middlemen between pharmacies and drug makers....
Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Russell, Ky. (Photo from Addiction Recovery Care) —– A major drug-treatment company says it has completed its purchase of part of Our Lady of Bellefonte...
Photo from American Nurses Association —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Senate passed its version of a two-year state budget by a 30-6 vote Wednesday, the same...
Rep. Ken Fleming, R-Louisville —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The House has passed and sent the Senate a bill aimed at improving ambulances’ response times, for both emergent...
Rep. Ken Fleming, R-Louisville —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With input from 13 stakeholders, a compromise version of a bill to improve ambulance responses to both emergent and...
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As the pandemic continued receding in Kentucky...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been perhaps the most outspoken Republican leader in favor of vaccination against the coronavirus, but Thursday he objected to President Biden’s vaccination mandate for...