Regional healthcare leaders discussed the importance of healthcare innovation in the Medicaid world, healthcare transparency and consumer empowerment at the Louisville Forum held in late February at the University of Louisville. Panelists included Russell Cox, CEO of Louisville-based Norton Healthcare; Joe Steier, CEO of Louisville-based Signature Healthcare and Yasmine Winkler of the central region of UnitedHealthcare Inc.’s community and state business, which focuses on administering…
Kentucky dropped eight spots in America’s Health Rankings
A new America’s Health Rankings Health of Women and Children Report released by United HealthFoundation finds concerning increases in several of the nation’s key mortality measures for women and children. The report builds on the inaugural 2016 Health of Women and Children Report. United Health Foundation identifies areas of success as well as challenges for…
Vita-Stat to create 22 jobs with Louisville expansion
Vita-Stat LLC, a leading innovator of medication and care management software for assisting living communities and skilled nursing facilities, will expand its operation in Louisville with a more than $2.17 million investment that will create 22 full-time jobs, Gov. Matt Bevin and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced recently. “Vita-Stat has been a strong corporate partner…
UofL Institute for Sustainable Health & Optimal Aging receives nearly $2 million from HRSA
Older adults are often burdened with a variety of health conditions, sometimes coupled with loneliness, anxiety and depression. A strategy to engage primary care practitioners in meeting behavioral health needs of older adults is at the heart of a new federal grant awarded to the University of Louisville Institute for Sustainable Health & Optimal Aging…
Jewish Hospital Shelbyville Opens Newly-Renovated Emergency Department
Jewish Hospital Shelbyville, part of KentuckyOne Health, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in late February for its newly-renovated emergency department. The recent emergency department renovations were made possible by a $200,000 gift from the Colonel Harland Sanders Foundation, which was presented to the Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation in September 2017. “This investment to improve…
Registration, Abstract Submission Available for Appalachian Research Day
University of Kentucky researchers and doctors work closely with communities throughout Appalachia to learn more about health issues and improve wellbeing. Appalachian Research Day, led by the UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health, is an opportunity to highlight community-based research that begins at the local level and builds upon relationships between people, neighborhoods, and groups…