New campaign launched Wednesday to eliminate child abuse
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- Kara Mellick kissed her fingers and placed them on her sleeping nine-month-old daughter's head before she headed out the door in the summer of...
View ArticleNew Passport audit shows improvements, questions some practices
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — A new audit released Tuesday of Passport Health Plan found significant improvements in the organization after a scathing 2010 audit found...
View ArticleMistrial declared in Wayne County toddler murder case
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com A mistrial was declared Tuesday in the trial of a Wayne County man charged with murder in the death of his 20-month old toddler. Circuit Court Judge Vernon...
View Article47 additional social workers to be hired in Kentucky by July 1
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- An additional 47 workers will be hired in Kentucky by July 1 to help over-worked staffers dealing with child protection and economic assistance...
View ArticleNew Medicaid commissioner named
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- A former insurance executive has been tapped as the state's new Medicaid commissioner. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey...
View ArticleBeshear: KY will implement health insurance exchange
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- Gov. Steve Beshear said Kentucky will implement a state health insurance exchange called for in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable...
View ArticleEthics panel issues charge against former social worker
FRANKFORT – The Executive Branch Ethics Commission issued an ethics charge Monday against Margaret “Geri” Murphy, a former employee of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services who has pleaded guilty...
View ArticleReport: State could have done more to protect residents at troubled care home
By Beth Musgrave and Valarie Honeycutt Spears bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — The state could have done more to protect mentally ill and disabled residents from abuse at a now-shuttered home...
View Article22 Kentucky children died from abuse or neglect in the past year
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — At least 22 Kentucky children died in the past year as a result of abuse and neglect, according to a state report released Friday. The Cabinet...
View ArticleCabinet launches new abuse reporting Web site
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- The Cabinet for Health and Family Services has launched a new web site that will allow people to report possible abuse and neglect for children...
View ArticleAdvocates of disabled decry proposal that could bring loss of sheltered jobs
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — More than 100 disabled people, their parents and providers packed a Frankfort hearing room Friday to protest changes to state rules that many...
View ArticleToyota to donate $115,000 for early childhood education centers
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- Toyota Motor Manufacturing will donate $115,000 to establish 10 early education academies geared toward helping parents better prepare children...
View ArticleMembers named to external review team for child abuse deaths
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Retired Franklin Circuit Court Judge Roger Crittenden will head a new independent panel that will examine deaths and severe injuries involving...
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Ky names new public health commissioner
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- The long-time director of Kentucky's public health laboratory has been named the commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health....
View ArticleAttorney General: Cabinet violated Open Records law in records of 2-year-old...
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- Attorney General Jack Conway's office has ruled that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services improperly withheld information from a...
View ArticleKentucky Spirit plans to terminate Kentucky Medicaid contract, cut 200...
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — One of three Medicaid managed-care companies has told Kentucky that it plans to end its contract with the state by July 2013, putting 200 people...
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Independent child-death review panel to hold first meeting
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — An independent panel charged with reviewing child deaths and serious injuries caused by abuse and neglect in Kentucky will meet Tuesday for the...
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Panel reviewing Kentucky child abuse deaths won’t get full case files
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — An independent panel that convened Tuesday for the first time to review deaths and serious injuries of abused and neglected children won’t have...
View ArticleLegislators complain about delays in Medicaid payments
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Too many hospitals and doctors are still not being paid promptly by the companies who began managing Medicaid care in Kentucky a year ago,...
View ArticleFeds award Kentucky $183 million for health benefit exchange
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- The federal government announced Thursday that Kentucky was one of four states to receive a multi-year grant to help pay for the operation of a...
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