Free medical screenings, dental work for teens and adults available in Mayfield through

West Kentuckians in need of vigor thoughtfulness can progress free of charge remedial, dental and optical screenings through Tuesday, Aug. 13 by the side of the old Morgan Haugh Clinic building by the side of 220 W. Walnut St. In Mayfield from 9 a.M. To 7 p.M., counting Saturday and Sunday.

Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton

U.S. Rep. Andy Barr

U.S. Representative. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton. The clinic, single of two in Kentucky funded by federal telehealth grants, opened in dignified 2012, and "provides access to primary and specialty thoughtfulness in support of the similarity through set-up established by Kentucky One Health, the chief vigor order in the Commonwealth," reports KyForward.

Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011

In 2012, as U.S. incomes remained lower and poverty rates higher than in 2007, the year before the recession, Kentucky poverty rates increased and one in four Kentucky children were living in poverty, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. However, the percentage of Kentuckians with health insurance increased.

Kentucky had the fifth highest percentage of residents living in poverty (19.4 percent) in 2012, up from 18.8 percent in 2011. It ranked behind Mississippi (24.2 percent), New Mexico (20.8), Louisiana (19.9) and Arkansas (19.8). However, it was statistically tied with the last two states for third place because the error margin for the estimates is plus or minus 0.5 percentage points. Nationally, 2012 was the second straight year that the U.S. poverty rate had failed to improve. It remained at 15 percent, with 46.5 million people earning at or below the federal poverty line. Click here for an interactive poverty rate map from Stateline.

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