Collaboration, telemedicine save lives in rural Kentucky

Many rural women in Appalachia can now have their babies closer to home thanks to a partnership between Appalachian Regional HealthCare and...

Nine hospitals in Kentucky get maximum Medicare penalty for readmissions; they blame socioeconomic factors

Article updated 10/20/2014 Nine hospitals in Kentucky, eight of them in Appalachia, have been hit with the highest penalty possible by Medic...

CDC sending full-time senior staffer to E. Ky. to help health departments tackle the region's chronic, serious health problems

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will place a full-time employee in Eastern Kentucky to help public health department...

UK-EKU center gets $5 million to address occupational health and safety issues in Central Appalachia and Kentucky

A center based in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health has received a five-year, $5 million grant to advance occupational hea...

Appalachian Kentucky has much of what it needs to improve its poor health status, key federal officials agree

By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Appalachian Kentucky has the enthusiasm, creativity, people and facilities needed to greatly improve its di...

UK president sees the need for 'irrational optimism' and working as a community to improve Kentucky's health

The health and economic issues facing Appalachian Kentucky are daunting, but still worthy of "irrational optimism," as espoused by...

Health issues facing Appalachia, focus of CDC director's tour, could be a forewarning of where the country is heading

The chronic health issues of Appalachia, the focus of a recent tour by the head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , ...

UK, CDC announce two new health initiatives for Appalachia

University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto, joined by U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers and Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Dise...

Medicaid expansion has dramatically reduced share of uninsured in most counties; some legislators worry about future cost

The expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform has greatly reduced the number of Kentuckians without health insurance, but state legi...

CDC director to attend a series of events Aug. 4-6 to talk about health issues in Appalachian Ky.; public is invited to attend

The director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will participate in four events in Eastern Kentucky next week to disc...

As Virginia governor fights to follow Kentucky's lead on Medicaid, free-clinic user says she doesn't want government handout

Kentucky's success with federal health reform hasn't been mirrored in adjoining states. It is a complex topic that was made more com...