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- Bluegrass Family Health Changes Name To Baptist Health Plan
Bluegrass Family Health, the insurance arm of Baptist Health, is changing its name to Baptist Health Plan. This change will make the Lexington-based health insurance carrier, which has offered insurance through area employers for more than 20 years, be...
- Cdc Says Soar Should Focus On Substance Abuse, Obesity And Diabetes; Idea Of Mountaintop Mining Study Is Largely Ignored
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Shaping Our Appalachian Region, the bipartisan effort to revitalize and diversify Eastern Kentucky's economy, will focus its health efforts on substance abuse, obesity and diabetes, SOAR Executive Director Jared...
- Cdc Sending Full-time Senior Staffer To E. Ky. To Help Health Departments Tackle The Region's Chronic, Serious Health Problems
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will place a full-time employee in Eastern Kentucky to help public health departments battle the region's serious, chronic health problems, the area's congressman said Tuesday. Republican...
- Kentucky Ranks 49th In Well-being Survey, And Eastern Kentucky's Congressional District Ranks Last In The Nation
Kentucky ranked 49th in the nation in a survey that measures perception of well-being, ranking higher than West Virginia and lower than Mississippi, and its 5th Congressional District ranked dead last in the nation. "The survey assessed people's emotional...
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Baptist Health is first stand-alone health provider to become founding partner of Shaping our Appalachian Region effort
Baptist Health has become the first stand-alone health-care provider to sign on as a founding partner in Shaping Our Appalachian Region, an initiative to improve the economy of Eastern Kentucky.
Baptist will work with SOAR to develop and implement health and education initiatives for residents of Appalachian Kentucky and has committed $150,000 to the initiative over the next three years, the organizations said in a press release.
?Baptist Health understands Eastern Kentucky because we have a proven and time-honored commitment to the health and well-being of our people,? Stephen C. Hanson, chief executive officer of Baptist Health, said in the press release. ?Our participation in SOAR reflects this pledge. Besides Richmond, we?ve also got hospitals in Corbin and Lexington, along with outpatient facilities, doctors? offices and other services all over Eastern Kentucky, the rest of the commonwealth and indeed throughout the region."
The University of Kentucky was the first founding sponsor of SOAR, pledging $300,000 over the next three years and winning the right to use the UK HealthCare brand on SOAR materials as well as the university's general logo.
Gov. Steve Beshear and Congressman Hal Rogers formed SOAR in the fall of 2013 to create strategic plans to improve Eastern Kentucky's economy and quality of life.
?Our primary objective is creating and maintaining jobs across eastern Kentucky, and in order to do that, we need a healthy and well-educated workforce,? Beshear said in the release. ?I?m pleased that Baptist Health understands the key connections among our efforts and the critical role that health will play in the future of this region."
Baptist will work with SOAR to develop and implement health and education initiatives for residents of Appalachian Kentucky and has committed $150,000 to the initiative over the next three years, the organizations said in a press release.
?Baptist Health understands Eastern Kentucky because we have a proven and time-honored commitment to the health and well-being of our people,? Stephen C. Hanson, chief executive officer of Baptist Health, said in the press release. ?Our participation in SOAR reflects this pledge. Besides Richmond, we?ve also got hospitals in Corbin and Lexington, along with outpatient facilities, doctors? offices and other services all over Eastern Kentucky, the rest of the commonwealth and indeed throughout the region."
The University of Kentucky was the first founding sponsor of SOAR, pledging $300,000 over the next three years and winning the right to use the UK HealthCare brand on SOAR materials as well as the university's general logo.
Gov. Steve Beshear and Congressman Hal Rogers formed SOAR in the fall of 2013 to create strategic plans to improve Eastern Kentucky's economy and quality of life.
?Our primary objective is creating and maintaining jobs across eastern Kentucky, and in order to do that, we need a healthy and well-educated workforce,? Beshear said in the release. ?I?m pleased that Baptist Health understands the key connections among our efforts and the critical role that health will play in the future of this region."
- New Health Chair Of Appalachian Ky. Economic Group Says He's A Conductor, Not A Director; Deflects Query On Mining's Health Effects
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Dr. William Hacker, a former state health commissioner, is the new chair of the Community Health Advisory Council for Shaping Our Appalachian Region, a non-profit organization created last year by Democratic Gov....
- Bluegrass Family Health Changes Name To Baptist Health Plan
Bluegrass Family Health, the insurance arm of Baptist Health, is changing its name to Baptist Health Plan. This change will make the Lexington-based health insurance carrier, which has offered insurance through area employers for more than 20 years, be...
- Cdc Says Soar Should Focus On Substance Abuse, Obesity And Diabetes; Idea Of Mountaintop Mining Study Is Largely Ignored
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Shaping Our Appalachian Region, the bipartisan effort to revitalize and diversify Eastern Kentucky's economy, will focus its health efforts on substance abuse, obesity and diabetes, SOAR Executive Director Jared...
- Cdc Sending Full-time Senior Staffer To E. Ky. To Help Health Departments Tackle The Region's Chronic, Serious Health Problems
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will place a full-time employee in Eastern Kentucky to help public health departments battle the region's serious, chronic health problems, the area's congressman said Tuesday. Republican...
- Kentucky Ranks 49th In Well-being Survey, And Eastern Kentucky's Congressional District Ranks Last In The Nation
Kentucky ranked 49th in the nation in a survey that measures perception of well-being, ranking higher than West Virginia and lower than Mississippi, and its 5th Congressional District ranked dead last in the nation. "The survey assessed people's emotional...