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.

Effort for kids' dental health in Clark, started by volunteers and continued by health department with tax, earns national award

"A similarity effort to fight tooth decay in children in Clark County has been named a archetype in support of the population," veteran journalist Al Smith reports in an op-ed in support of the Lexington Herald-Leader. The Clark County Dental Health Initiative expected the determination in support of archetype practice keep up month by the side of the yearly consultation of the National Association of City and County Health Officials, and the province vigor board recently raised taxes to recompense in support of it.

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.