pandemic

FRONT OP/ED Q&A 

Physician Burnout: MD-Update Q & A with Dr. Shawn Jones

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Maintaining physician wellness is critical to our nation for surviving the COVID-19 pandemic. Physician burnout is not new, but it’s

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Complementary Care SLIDER 

Cedar Lake Gets Creative to Serve a Vulnerable Population

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Thomas Pack array of unprecedented challenge, baptist health, basic safety precaution, BCBA, behavior service, cedar, cedar lake, cedar lake 's group, cedar lake 's medical director, cedar lake director, cedar lake director of therapeutic service, cedar lake lodge, combat isolation, coordinated emergency plan, COVID-19, difficult message, director of behavior service, Dr., Dr. wheeler photo, family medicine specialist, James wheeler, LBA, live skill, lockdowns, loneliness, Louisville many, Louisville parent, Louisville parent of people, McKenzie, McKenzie state, medical group, MS, off-site class, pandemic, photo, quarantine, scheduled class, Scott McKenzie, socially-distanced, socially-distanced engagement, specialist, staff member, suspended visitation, tell family member, therapeutic service, vulnerable population, wheeler, wheeler point

LOUISVILLE Many of us have trouble mentally processing the changes to daily life caused by the pandemic. For the individuals

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Complementary Care FRONT 

News Flash…Exercise is Good for You!

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LEXINGTON How many times have you heard that statement in some form or another? For some of you, you’ve heard

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Legal 

Telehealth Expansion in Kentucky 2020 During COVID-19: the Future?

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In 2018, Kentucky became one of the first states to authorize physician use of telehealth and to prohibit health plans

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Finance 

Discover What’s Normal

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Before getting into the financial column, let me say that you who are watching after and attending to the health

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Headlines 

Surplus Supplies Save Lives Worldwide — And in Our Own Backyard

August 1, 2020October 19, 2020 Thomas Pack Bellarmine, Bellarmine 's Lansing, Bellarmine college department, Bellarmine college department of nurse, board council, board council of the woman 's global cancer alliance, cancer alliance, care facility, clinical nurse specialist, COVID-19, COVID-19 crisis, Davis, Davis draw, Davis serve, dean of Bellarmine 's Lansing, donation coordinator, Edd, garbage truck, great Louisville medical society, healthcare, image001 photo, impoverished community, Kentucky, Kentucky hospital, landfill, large portion of the surplus, local donation coordinator, long term care facility, Louisville, Louisville metro police department, Mary manse college, medical supply, medical surplus, member of the great Louisville medical society, Norton Healthcare, nurse, office of adult service, organization collect, pandemic, plastic surgery practice, PPE, responder, right supply, RN, St. Vincent hospital school, Sue Davis, sure surplus, surgery practice, surplus, surplus supply, value of donated item, wide range of experience, woman 's global cancer alliance

LOUISVILLE Nearly 430,000 garbage trucks — that’s what it would take to haul medical surplus from U.S. hospitals each year,

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Special Section 

Delivering Care

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BARDSTOWN In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the general message has been to wait, to stay home, to be

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Headlines-OP/ED 

COVID-19: Reflections, Remembrances and Recollections

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“What will you remember? What would you like to forget?” We asked Kentuckiana physicians and administrators to share their thoughts

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Legal 

COVID-19 Immunity Protection for Healthcare Professionals

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During the COVID-19 crisis, a number of state governments, including Kentucky’s, have taken steps to adopt new protections for the

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Headlines-OP/ED OP/ED 

Perspectives and Opinions: Old and New

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For an infectious disease physician practicing at the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Lexington, in some ways the environment

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