Kentucky picks up on federal Medicaid funding for inmates, which will expand when health reform takes full effect

Medicaid now covers care for inmates outside
prisons and jails, and health reform will extend
coverage to most former prisoners upon release.

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.

As prescription painkillers become harder to get and abuse, heroin replaces them in Eastern and Southern Kentucky

 

Heroin consume, which has been a glitch in Northern and followed by Central Kentucky in the same way as the state began cracking down on prescription painkillers after everything else day, has been dispersion to the Southern and Eastern parts of the state.