Rushed transition to managed care is cautionary tale for other states, especially those with large rural populations

Kaden Stone and mother, Angelina Alcott (Photo by Julie Bergal)

Since Kentucky's abrupt revolution to a Medicaid managed-care usage in 2011, problems own been extensive amid patients and providers, highlighting the dangers representing other states,

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.

Agreement will move at least 600 from personal-care homes to community mental health facilities

At smallest amount 600 frequent at the moment in personal-care homes will be stirred to community-based settings under "an agreement so as to advocates say will systematically amend the way similarity mental vigor services are delivered in Kentucky, humanizing the lives of hundreds of frequent with mental illnesses and disabilities," Beth Musgrave reports in support of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Laurel True, longtime advocate for health, education and human services, dies suddenly at 80

Laurel W. True, who continued his public service for health and other causes long after leaving state government, died suddenly Saturday at his home near Waddy in Shelby County. He was 80.

"For the onwards five decades, Mr. True worked tirelessly to better the vigor and welfare of Kentuckians," The Courier-Journal thought in an editorial. Modish the 1970s True was the at the outset desk of the old Cabinet in support of Human Resources and executive director of Kentucky Health Systems Agency-West, a state health-planning organization, and was an assistant director of community tutoring. Earlier, he helped start Medicaid in Kentucky and the conversion of United Mine Workers hospitals into Appalachian Regional Hospitals.

Mental-health issue

Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a very mental-health issue, and it's portion of an expanding national problem. "America's lockups are its new asylums," Gary Fields and Erica Phillips report to the Wall Street Journal. "After scores of state mental institutions were closed starting in the 1970s, few alternatives materialized. Most of the afflicted finished up around the streets, where, untreated, they became weaker to joblessness, drug use and crime."