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Kentucky Health News: Lake Cumberland District Health Department using polls in an effort to get school boards to make campuses tobacco-free

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Saturday, June 20, 2015. Lake Cumberland District Health Department using polls in an effort to get school boards to make campuses tobacco-free. Department logo has been altered to. Show Clinton County in yellow. The Lake Cumberland District Health Department. Conducted the poll in Clinton County, and said it found that 86.55 percent were in favor and 7.16 percent were opposed. The rest had no opinion. The department a...

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Kentucky Health News: Consumer Reports releases annual hospital-acquired infection report; some Ky. hospitals have work to do; state to get data

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Friday, July 31, 2015. Consumer Reports releases annual hospital-acquired infection report; some Ky. hospitals have work to do; state to get data. Has analyzed hospital-acquired infection data for thousands of hospitals across the U.S. and rated them on how well they prevented these infections. In Winchester (68), Baptist Health La Grange. 67), Crittenden County Hospital. In Marion (66), and Williamson ARH Hospital.

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Kentucky Health News: Ky. gets $3 million grant to expand substance abuse treatment for pregnant women after big jump in drug-dependent newborns

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Ky gets $3 million grant to expand substance abuse treatment for pregnant women after big jump in drug-dependent newborns. Kentucky will receive up to $3 million in federal grants over three years to provide expanded substance abuse treatment for pregnant and postpartum women in the Bluegrass and Cumberland regions of the state, according. To a news release from the governor's office. The gran...

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Kentucky Health News: Kentucky Health Cooperative, largest private provider on state insurance exchange, gets $65 million loan to keep going

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Saturday, December 20, 2014. Kentucky Health Cooperative, largest private provider on state insurance exchange, gets $65 million loan to keep going. The Kentucky Health Cooperative. A non-profit, consumer-governed health insurance company, received a $65 million federal loan last month to keep it afloat just days before the second open-enrollment period began, reports. Adam Beam of The Associated Press. CMS officials t...

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Kentucky Health News: Year of perseverance pays off for advocates of school tobacco ban in a county where raising tobacco was long a way of life

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Year of perseverance pays off for advocates of school tobacco ban in a county where raising tobacco was long a way of life. Clinton County in red ( Wikipedia. A year of perseverance, education and community input by the local and district health departments paid off as the Clinton County Board of Education voted July 20 to make its schools 100 percent tobacco free, reports. Bridgman said this p...

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Kentucky Health News: Fewer Ky. teens are having sex, and more teens are using birth control when they do; teen birth rates are at an all-time low

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Fewer Ky. teens are having sex, and more teens are using birth control when they do; teen birth rates are at an all-time low. Fewer teens are having sex now than did in the last generation, and of those that do, more are using some form of birth-control, according to a new report. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Kentucky Youth Risk Behavioral Survey,. In 2013, fewer Kentu...

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Kentucky Health News: Republicans call for de-funding Planned Parenthood in state; health secretary says that would lead to more teen pregnancies

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Saturday, August 8, 2015. Republicans call for de-funding Planned Parenthood in state; health secretary says that would lead to more teen pregnancies. Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin and the state House GOP caucus are calling for de-funding of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood has come under attack because of edited, undercover videos published by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress.

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Kentucky Health News: Lincoln County set to lose four school nurses if alternate funding or new partnerships are not found

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Friday, July 31, 2015. Lincoln County set to lose four school nurses if alternate funding or new partnerships are not found. UPDATE, Aug. 11: The school board made up part of the health department's budget cut, allowing it to keep seven nurses, "but not before a lengthy discussion which included talk of salary cuts and new pay scales for nurses," The Interior Journal reports. The Lincoln County School District. Held a ...

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Kentucky Health News: Clinton County schools will go tobacco-free in July 2016, do media campaign to prepare people for the change

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Clinton County schools will go tobacco-free in July 2016, do media campaign to prepare people for the change. The Clinton County Board of Education has voted to make all of the county's school campuses tobacco free, but decided to not implement this program until the 2016 school year begins to give the public more time to adjust to the new rule, reports. The Clinton County News. The tobacco-fre...

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Kentucky Health News: New rule will improve reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections in health-care facilities, which are getting worse in Kentucky

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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky. Sunday, January 18, 2015. New rule will improve reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections in health-care facilities, which are getting worse in Kentucky. Health Watch USA chart, Centers for Disease Control data. The new rule comes at a time when Kentucky has the third highest rate of MRSA bloodstream infections in the nation, according to the National Healthcare Safety Network. The state was ranked fourth last year.