U.S didn’t help nursing home which didn,t required procedure

The government is cutting off Medicaid and Medicare funds to the Green Meadows Health Care Center in Mount Washington for not meeting federal standards.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in an Aug. 28 public notice that the Bullitt County nursing home, licensed for 122 residents, would lose federal funds effective last Friday.
The [...]

Oral health is clearly an educational, health and economic issue

Kentucky is next to last in the nation in dental health, but there is hope for local residents.
“Oral health is clearly an educational, health and economic issue,” said University of Kentucky School of Dentistry professor Dr. Raynor Mullins.
“It’s pretty clear across all kinds of research, that oral health is directly affected by income and education [...]

Moments like these is what keeps a dozen or so locals volunteering tirelessly to help out Waterbury’s Karen refugees

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and [...]

where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water.

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and [...]