Seven Ky. communities get grants to reduce risks for chronic diseases among children and 'Invest in Kentucky's Future'

Seven diverse Kentucky communities are getting money to reduce the lay bare of chronic disease amid Kentucky's youth. The preliminary grants announced Thursday are part of the Foundation representing a Healthy Kentucky's modern Investing in Kentucky’s Future initiative, a five-year, $3 million encode.

School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues

School districts in Kentucky own long relied on district physical condition departments representing train nurses, but state financial plan cuts and problems with Medicaid reimbursements own squeezed the physical condition agencies, and they in try own plunk the squeeze on the schools representing more money and other measures.

Fruit bat roosting in a home

Fruit bat roosting in a home

Northern Kentucky physical condition officials are notice residents to be more wary of bats in the same way as an unusually high spot total of residents own made speak to with bats inside their homes and own had to receive the rabies vaccine. They are asking them to inform several bump into with bats to the physical condition unit.

Bats are commonly infected with rabies and own very small teeth, and so someone who wakes up with a bat in their bedroom might not realize it has bitten them, Northern Kentucky Health Department narrator Emily Gresham-Werle told Brenna Kelly of The Kentucky Inquirer.