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Generations of Care

December 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Debra Green affiliation, anesthesiologist, Ballard Wright, ben sloop, bluegrass, care physician, center 's desire, center 's physician, CEO image002, CEO image002 photo, chi, chi saint, chronic pain, clinic, corner of regency road, daughter of Dr. Ballard Wright, Dr. Ballard Wright, expanded care, expert physician, family medicine doctor, generation of Care, heather, Heather Wright, help patient cope, image001 photo, Inc. stone road surgery center, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph health 's network of hospital, Karim Rasheed, Lauren Larson, legacy pain treatment center, legacy pain treatment center of the bluegrass, Lexington, medical director of the pain treatment center of the bluegrass, medicine, Multi-Specialty, new affiliation, new era of collaboration, Olivia Kelley, outpatient, outstand medical care, pain, pain issue, pain management, pain treatment center, pain treatment center of the bluegrass, palliative care physician, Pasadena, Pasadena drive, patient 's pain, photo, physician, practice pain medicine, provider, refer provider, regency, regency road, rehab doctor, sloop, specialist, surgery, therapist, therapy

LEXINGTON For some people, acute or chronic pain is a fact of life, but expert physicians and specialists can help

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The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Professionals: Occupational Hazard, Unique Opportunity

December 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Miriam Silman, MSW $2, A., affective disorder, anxiety, burnout, C., check-in, compassion, compassion fatigue, confidential mental health coverage, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, crisis response, critical driver, current pandemic leave healthcare provider, D., E., EAP resource, elevated self-reports, elevated self-reports of depression, emotional exhaustion, evidence-informed, evidence-informed way, exception, exposure, fabric of healthcare system, fatigue, Frankfort, G., health concern increase vulnerability, health impact, healthcare, healthcare professional, healthcare provider, healthcare system, healthcare work, healthcare worker, huddle, I, image002 Miriam Silman, international journal, J., journal, journal of affective disorder, K., L., leadership, leave healthcare provider, level of healthcare, level of transformative change, M., mental health, mental health concern increase vulnerability, mental health impact, mental health impact of COVID-19, mental health of healthcare professional, mental health of healthcare worker, meta-analysis, moral distress, MSW, multi-tiered system, multi-tiered system of support, N., negative psychosocial response, occupational hazard, P., pains.1, pains.1 emerge data, pandemic, past pandemic, physician, plethora of negative psychosocial response, positivity, pre-pandemic, provider, psychosocial impact, public awareness, R., resilience-building, resilience-building practice, resilient workforce, robust body of literature, S., screener, secondary trauma, secondary traumatic stress, self-care, somatic ache, staff meet, staff well-being, stress, supervision, sustainable healthcare system, symptom of traumatic stress, system responsibility, toll, toll of healthcare work, transformative change, trauma, traumatic stress, unpredictability of the current pandemic leave healthcare provider, well-being

FRANKFORT The ferocity, duration, and unpredictability of the current pandemic leave healthcare providers particularly vulnerable to negative psychosocial impacts: COVID-19

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Critical Delays: The Importance of Meeting the Standard of Care for Cancer Diagnosis

December 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Andrew Desimone, Esq additional pain, breach, breach of the standard of care, cancer, cancer screen program, causation, causation defense, causation standard, chance, common lawsuit, competent physician, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 patient, critical delay, damage exposure, defend delay, defendant physician, delay, delayed diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis case, diagnosis of cancer, diagnosis of cancer case, diminished chance, diminished chance of survival, expert testimony, general negligence claim, healthcare, healthcare professional, hospital redirect resource, injury, jury, Kentucky, legal causation standard, levels.1, lost chance, lost chance of survival, malpractice, malpractice case, malpractice defense, medical malpractice case, medical malpractice defense, medical probability, multiple hospitalization, necessary expert proof, negligence, NIH find show, oncology, oncology service, oppose expert, outcome, pandemic, patient-physician, patient-physician relationship, physician, physician breach, physician breach of the standard of care, pre-pandemic, pre-pandemic levels.1, probability, provider, reasonable degree, reasonable degree of medical probability, reasonable degree of probability, reduction of the odds of recovery, requirement of an expert witness, routine cancer screen, significant damage exposure, site surgery, standard of care, subset of a general negligence claim, summary dismissal of the lawsuit, surgery, survivability, survival, testimony, wrong site surgery

One of the most common lawsuits in medical malpractice defense is a delay in diagnosis of cancer. According to the

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Will You Be Surprised When the “No Surprises Act” Goes into Effect Jan. 1, 2022?

December 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Chip Dalton balance, balance bill, bill, bill staff, billed charge, commercial health plan, consent, consumer demand transparency, contracted rate, cost share calculation, CPI-U, determine cost share calculation, dispute resolution process, emergency, faith estimate, good faith estimate, health plan, healthcare treatment, in-network, in-network facility, in-network hospital, in-network plan, insurance, insurance plan, median of contracted rate, medical debt, member 's cost, member 's plan, new arbitration, new law, non-emergent service, out-of-network, out-of-network care, out-of-network claim, out-of-network emergency care, out-of-network emergency service, out-of-network hospital, out-of-network provider, out-of-network service, patient 's in-network, patient 's protection, payment, plan network, pre-authorization, president trump, provider, provider service, qualify amount, recognized amount, state 's medical bill law, submission process, surprise, surprise act, surprise bill

Patients have never been more concerned and affected by the cost of their healthcare treatment, as medical debt continues to

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News – Dec 2021

December 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff $36, 36 year healthcare veteran, 373-bed, 434-bed, 434-bed hospital, Agarwala, American college, American pathologist, Antonio Lopez, APRN, baptist health, breast, breed, Brown, brown cancer center, cancer, Care, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief operate officer, Chris Roty, clinic, day-to-day leadership, diagnostics, diagnostics center, Dunlap, Emily Volk, family medicine, FCAP, fellowship, healthcare veteran, Hejazi, hospital 's leadership, ICU, image001 photo, inpatient, internal medicine, J., Jessamine, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Kamran Hejazi Kenari, Kentucky, Kiltinen, Kyaw, LA Grange, laboratory medicine, leadership, Leslye Jones, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Louisville, Louisville school, lung, lung cancer, lung disease, management of the 434-bed hospital, Matt Bailey, medical degree, medicine, Neal Dunlap, neck, neck cancer, Nessa Timoney, News, nurse, nurse practitioner, oncology, osteopathic medicine, Paducah, Paducah hospital, pathologist, pathology, pediatrics, photo, physician, post-graduate, president of baptist health, preventative, provider, Pulmonology, radiation, radiation oncology, radiology, residency, Roty, Roty 's leadership, S., Sanjay Agarwala, Siddiqui, Staten, Tennessee, treatment of lung, UofL, UofL health, Valerie, Valerie breed, vice president, Volk

Roty Named Chief Operating Officer at Baptist Health Lexington LEXINGTON After serving as president of Baptist Health Paducah, Chris Roty

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CHI Saint Joseph Health Expands Cancer Care

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff abnormal mammogram, active clinician, affiliate ofwith, application of biomedical engineer, area of sub-specialization, biomedical engineer, breast, breast cancer, breast cancer management, brief recap, cancer, cancer care, cancer patient, cancer team, cancer treatment, Care, Care center, chemotherapy, chi, chi institute, chi saint, CIRI, Cleveland, Cleveland clinic cancer center, Cleveland clinic cancer center breast cancer team, clinic, clinical focus, community cancer center, convenience of a community cancer center, Croley, cut cutting-edge treatment, cutting-edge treatment, editor 's intro, establish care, field of oncology, hematology, image001 photo, individual patient 's success, Jessica Croley, Jessica Jones Croley, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph health cancer, management of breast cancer, MDU, medical director, medical oncology, national research consortium, native Kentuckian, ofwith, oncologic condition, oncologist, oncology, patient 's success, patient navigator, personal philosophy, personal philosophy of care, professional life look, program strategy, provider, provider experience, quality process, radiation, radiologist, sub-specialization, survivorship care, suspicious mass, team of provider, time of abnormal mammogram, tumor, UK college of medicine, variety of hematologic

Editor’s Intro: Jessica Jones Croley, MD, is the medical director for CHI Saint Joseph Health Cancer Care, which launched an

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“45 Is the New 50”

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Shana Moore, PhD, MPA $2, 2 state, affordable screen option, age 45, age 45 give, average-risk, cancer, cancer institute, colorectal, colorectal cancer, CRC, CRC mortality, direct messaging, discussion of the screen option, end result data, epidemiology, family history, figure 1, figure 2, figure 3, figure 4, figure 5, Frankfort, https://seer.cancer.gov/data/, https://www.kcr.uky.edu/, impactful, impactful step, incidence, incidence of CRC, initiation.3, Kentucky, messaging, mortality, mortality data, national cancer institute, new messaging, new motto, new screen age, on-time screen, patients, pertinent family history, provider, recommended age, recommended age of initiation.3, referral, registry-, review of pertinent family history, review of surveillance, review of the importance of on-time screen, risk-appropriate, screen, screen message, screen option, screen rate, severity of CRC, statement1, stool-based, stool-based test, surveillance, undetected cancer, USPSTF, value-concordant, value-concordant preference, young population

FRANKFORT The recent change in the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines to start colorectal cancer (CRC) screening at

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Legal Liability During the COVID-19 Pandemic – What Do We Know?

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 Doug Stephan applicable exception, business owner, care facility, Care professional, care provider, causation, COVID-19, COVID-19 case, COVID-19 death, COVID-19 immunity protection, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccination, COVID-19 vaccine, Delta variant, Delta variant spread, Dittert, employee, employee of long-term care facility, employer, essential worker, federal bill, federal medicare, frontline worker, great risk of severe illness, healthcare, healthcare provider, HEROES-RECOVER, home case, immunity, infection, injury, Jamie W., Kentucky, Kentucky constitution, Kentucky law, lawsuit, liability, liability immunity, litigation, long term care facility, long-term care provider, low vaccination rate, mandatory vaccine, negligence, negligence litigation, nurse home, nurse home case, one-third of U.S. COVID-19 death, pandemic circumstance, plaintiff, provider, staff vaccination, standard of care, statute, study of health care worker, U.S. count, U.S. COVID-19, U.S. COVID-19 death, underlie health condition, universal staff vaccination, urge national COVID-19 civil liability immunity, vaccinated people, vaccination, vaccination mandate, vaccine, virus, W.

As of summer 2021, the U.S. counts over 35 million COVID-19 cases and more than 616,000 deaths. Nearly one-third of

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News – Aug 2021

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 MD-Update Staff $, $10.6 million partnership, 10.6, accreditation, American college, Aslam, Bahasa Indonesia, baptist health, baptist health team, Bardstown, Behnke, board-certified, cancer, cancer program, cardiology, Care, Care center, Care clinic, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief executive officer, Cleveland, clinic, CoC, De La Cruz, Dimeling, Elizabeth, Elizabeth hospital, emergency, emergency room, ER, Flaget, Flaget memorial, Floyd, formal groundbreaking, freestanding ER, good care, group practice, gynecology, heart procedure, hospice, hospice center, hybrid emergency room, image001 image, innovation, intensive program, internal medicine, intuitive health, invasive heart procedure, J., Jefferson ridge development, JEFFERSONVILLE, Jewish hospital, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, large group practice, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Louisville, Mary, MBA, medical degree, medical school, medicine, MedOne, MedOne hospital physician, Neltner, News, NSLI-Y, obstetrics, Ohio, onsite, patient care, photo, physician, primary care, procedure, provider, residency, Southern Indiana, Stephen J., stroke, stroke center, surgeon, surgery, TAVR, thoracic surgeon, thoracic surgery, transcatheter, undergraduate education, underserved, university of Virginia, UofL, UofL health, urgent care, urgent care clinic, Vasdev Lohano, year of experience

Baptist Health Teams Up with Intuitive Health, Breaks Ground on Southern Indiana’s First Freestanding ER and Urgent Care JEFFERSONVILLE, IN

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‘It Is Such a Rewarding Career’

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Pat Henderson big myth, care doctor treat low-complexity case, chief resident, Chris Witzke image002, Chris Witzke image002 photo, Chris Witzke Louisville, Chris Witzke Louisville native Traci Edwards, client 's treatment, COVID, COVID-19, doctor, Dr. Edwards, dread come, dream job, Edwards, Edwards 's patient, family medicine, family medicine doctor, family medicine physician, family medicine practice, family practice doctor, family practice matter, family practice plan, family practitioner, healthcare, high-deductible, hometown doctor, image001 photo, impact care, impactful, Impactful lifestyle choice, importance of lifestyle, in-person gather, Kentucky, lifestyle, Louisville, Louisville 's west end, major diagnosis, medication cost, medicine, next kidney failure, office visit, physician, practitioner, primary care doctor treat low-complexity case, provider, reward career, reward scale, rise medication cost, south end of Louisville, specialty practice, St. Elizabeth, St. Elizabeth 's medical center, telehealth, top of the reward scale, Traci Edwards, traditional office visit, university of Kentucky college of medicine, UofL Health-Medical, UofL Health-Medical center, variety of specialty, vast body of knowledge, Wagner high school

LOUISVILLE While it may be debated as to whether the “dream job” actually exists or is just a fantasy, Traci

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