Unknown Sunday, May 31, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Rebidding of Medicaid managed-care contracts gets same result: Anthem and Passport to be out on Jan. 1; Passport plans protestHealthy Care By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians on Medicaid will have a new managed-care organizations to deal with... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Plans are in the works to open schools in fall, despite some superintendents' concerns that guidelines make it impossibleHealthy Care By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky school superintendents say they wouldn't be able to re-open schools under su... Read More
Unknown Saturday, May 30, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Virus cases are elevated for 2nd straight day in Ky., but Beshear attributes pattern to heavy testing in long-term-care facilitiesHealthy Care Anonymous cell-phone tracking gauges mobility as the economy reopens. Selected counties' numbers are shown; all are available on ... Read More
Unknown Friday, May 29, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Virus cases spike; Beshear says too early to draw conclusions; Butler, county with highest infection rate, reports 6 deaths in 1 dayHealthy Care Read More
Unknown Thursday, May 28, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Beshear offers statistics to show that his 'drastic and significant steps' saved thousands of lives, says to 'remember the lessons'Healthy Care Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Most of Kentucky's Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinic are testing for the coronavirus; anyone can get a testHealthy Care By David Bolt CEO, Kentucky Primary Care Association The covid-19 pandemic has amplified the importance of health-care providers, network... Read More
Unknown Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 400 Kentuckians have died of covid-19; Beshear confronts the politics of masks and resistance of some local officials to testingHealthy Care The governor's mansion uses green lights to memorialize the deaths of Kentuckians from covid-19. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky... Read More
Unknown Tuesday, May 26, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Coronavirus cases decline, but more nursing homes are infected, and Kentuckians' behavior and attitude worry health officials Healthy Care As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may be updated. Official state guidance is at kycovid19.ky.gov . ... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Beshear says 'right-wing militia group' that hung him in effigy was 'embraced and emboldened' by GOP legislators at earlier rallyHealthy Care By Al Cross Kentucky Heath News Two days after being hung in effigy, Gov. Andy Beshear returned the fire Tuesday, using much of his daily... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit More Attempts to Intimidate Health Care Professionals Who Try to Educate About Coronavirus Healthy Care Renewal Introduction Physicians and other health care professionals are sworn to put patients' interests ahead of all else, and to uphold the in... Read More
Unknown Monday, May 25, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Reopening when we're not quite ready to thwart covid-19 means managing risk, and there are four types, health expert writesHealthy Care No state "has met the metrics to safely reopen," so the nation "needs to move to the public health strategy of harm reduction... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit National health secretary says health requires reopeningHealthy Care By Alex M. Azar U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, for The Washington Post President Trump’s top priority throughout the covid-... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Pediatrician offers facts about serious syndrome that can attack children who were otherwise unaffected by the coronavirusHealthy Care By Dr. Sean McTigue University of Kentucky There have been reports coming out of New York and other states that have been hit hard by the... Read More
Unknown Sunday, May 24, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Protesters hang Beshear in effigy, sparking bipartisan rebukesHealthy Care Photo by Sarah Ladd, Courier Journal, via Twitter Protesters hung Gov. Andy Beshear in effigy from a tree across from the governo... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Why wear a mask when you go out in public? Because you may have the coronavirus and not know it, and it's highly contagiousHealthy Care President Trump wore a mask on a private tour of a Ford plant Thursday but refuses to do so in public. By Melissa Patrick Kentuc... Read More
Unknown Saturday, May 23, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit No deaths from covid-19 in Ky. for the first time in 1½ monthsHealthy Care Kentucky Heath News chart shows that cases trended up this week, but the two-week trendline, a key federal metric used to guide state... Read More
Unknown Friday, May 22, 2020 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Beshear says virus is declining in Kentucky, but he and health chief warn that might not continue 'if we take our eye off the ball'Healthy Care Johns Hopkins University chart shows how Kentucky testing is up and positive results are down. By Al Cross Kentucky Health Ne... Read More