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Variety of Viewpoints Makes for Engaging, Motivating Bost Forum

Filed Under: Community Health September 26, 2018, Stephanie Clouser

The opioid crisis in Kentucky, and across the country, continues to be a hot topic in healthcare. For the second straight year, the Howard L. Bost Memorial Health Policy Forum, convened by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, chose substance use (with a heavy emphasis on opioid use) as the […]

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Keep Your Eyes Wide Open – Technological Advancements Are Rapidly Changing Our Future

Filed Under: Community Health September 17, 2018, Stephanie Clouser

(Note: This guest post was written by Brenda Miles, retired Director of Benefits for Papa John’s International. Brenda is a business development consultant for the KHC Employer and Healthcare Purchaser Network.)  The recent KY SHRM conference in Louisville was well worth the time invested. As a long-time HR and employee […]

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Hepatitis A outbreak continues to grow in Louisville, throughout the Commonwealth

Filed Under: Community Health, KHC News May 29, 2018, Stephanie Clouser

(Note: This guest post was written by Lori Caloia, MD, medical director for Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness) The hepatitis A outbreak continues to grow in Louisville and throughout Kentucky. To date, 392 cases have been identified, and there have been two deaths within Jefferson County. The […]

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Louisville Coming Together to Curb the Spread of Hepatitis A

Filed Under: Community Health April 25, 2018, Stephanie Clouser

Louisville continues to work to control an outbreak of acute hepatitis A, which remains centered among the city’s homeless and those who use illicit drugs.

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Minority Health Month Brings Focus to Groups that Often Have Health Disparities

Filed Under: Community Health April 23, 2018, Teresa Couts

Minority Health Month, held each year in April, is a time to learn more about the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations and to raise awareness of the health disparities that continue to affect racial and ethnic minorities. As an African-American female born with benign ethnic neutropenia, a […]

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Moving Past the Stigma of Addiction: Implementing National Principles of Care

Filed Under: Community Health, Mental Health February 20, 2018, Stephanie Clouser

(Note: this column was written by Samantha Arsenault, Director of National Treatment Quality Initiatives at Shatterproof, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the devastation addiction causes families. Samantha will speak at the 2018 KHC Annual Conference.) In the past year, 20.1 million Americans had a substance use disorder (SUD), of […]

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The Joint Commission Sets Standard of Care for Providers of Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Filed Under: Community Health, Mental Health February 19, 2018, Stephanie Clouser

(Note: This column was written by Julia Finken, Executive Director of Behavioral Health Care and Psychiatric Hospital Accreditation for The Joint Commission) I’m sitting in my office and yet another article arrives in my email regarding a substance use provider delivering substandard services. On any given day, in any selected media, there […]

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It’s Not Too Late to Promote World Diabetes Day Efforts to Protect our Future

Filed Under: Community Health December 1, 2017, Stephanie Clouser

(Note: This guest blog post was written by Andrea Doughty, Louisville Metro Department of Health & Wellness and Co-chair of the Louisville Health Advisory Board Diabetes Committee) This November we ‘celebrated’ World Diabetes Day (WDD). Led by the International Diabetes Federation, WDD unites the global diabetes community to produce a […]

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HealthDoers Network: The “Facebook” of Health Improvement

Filed Under: Community Health August 16, 2017, Randa Deaton

If you work to improve community health and healthcare, then you are officially a “HealthDoer” and would benefit from the HealthDoers Network. We think of it as the Facebook platform of health improvement. The network provides trusted peer-to-peer forums and programming to support those working to improve community health and […]

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