News
MediStar Awards to Honor UK Nurse, Kentucky Homeplace
The 2018 MediStar Awards will recognize Leslie Scott, associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, and the Kentucky Homeplace initiative. This year’s ceremony will take place on Oct. ...
Tags - Rural Health
Posted - Oct 16Read More
Hazard Stroke Survivor and Caregiver Support Group Receives Award
Hazard, Ky. (Oct. 1, 2018) – The Hazard Stroke Survivor and Caregiver Support Group was recognized with a Community Service Award from the UK HealthCare/Norton HealthCare - Stroke Care Network, during the 2018...
Tags -
Posted - Oct 2Read More
Hospital CEOs, emergency department leaders gather for training in Shelbyville
More than 40 hospital CEOs and emergency department (ED) leaders from critical access hospitals (CAHs) and other rural hospitals across the state met in Shelbyville on August 9-10 to learn about ways to...
Tags -
Posted - Aug 15Read More
Morgan County health care professionals hear about the “disease of addiction”
Addiction doesn’t make any sense and purely punitive approaches to ending addiction will not work, Dr. John Sanders, the medical director for hospice and palliative medicine at St. Claire HealthCare in...
Tags -
Posted - Jul 26Read More
Community members receive Naloxone training at Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital
Sixty community members took part in free Naloxone training offered on July 17 at the Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital in Hyden.Training participants also received two doses of Naloxone to use if they encounter...
Tags -
Posted - Jul 26Read More
UK Global Ophthalmology Hosts Inaugural Outreach Clinic
On May 5, the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in partnership with the Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) and the Huffman &...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Center of Excellence in Rural Health
Posted - Jun 1Read More
Video Highlights from the Fourth Annual Appalachian Research Day
More than 200 people attended the Fourth Annual Appalachian Research Day on April 18 in Hazard, Ky. The event is hosted each year by the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (UK CERH),...
Tags -
Posted - May 22Read More
Perhaps more than ever, Kentucky needs social workers to help the most vulnerable among us
Since the 1960s, March has been marked as a time to celebrate the significant work of social work practitioners, educators, researchers and students. Social work has a rich and storied history. The...
Tags -
Posted - Mar 21Read More
Center for Excellence in Rural Health Releases Appalachian Research Day Agenda
The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) has released the full agenda for the fourth annual Appalachian Research Day: Come Sit on the Porch. The one-day event, which shares...
Tags - Appalachian Kentucky, Research
Posted - Jan 24Read More
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT and RESEARCH MINI-GRANT PROGRAM 2018
Attention, Community Agency/Coalition Leaders.The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) Community Engagement and Research Program is requesting applications from community...
Tags -
Posted - Dec 8Read More
Students Participate in Healthalachia Innovation Project
The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (UK CERH) is providing funding and technical assistance for three student groups involved in the Healthalachia Innovation Project. Healthalachia...
Tags -
Posted - Dec 5Read More
Kentucky Homeplace Featured by the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kentucky Homeplace Featured by the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for Helping Clients with Arthritis in Rural AreasIn observance of World Arthritis Day on October 12, The National Centers...
Tags -
Posted - Nov 3Read More
Kentucky Rural Health Leader Receives National Award
MEDIA CONTACT: Beth Bowling, beth.bowling@uky.edu, 606-439-3557Author: Jennifer Molley WilsonHAZARD, Ky. (Sept. 15, 2107) – The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health is pleased to...
Tags -
Posted - Sep 19Read More
Charles Marshall Selected for 2017 Academic Leadership Academy Program
Charles Marshall Selected for 2017 Academic Leadership Academy Program Offered by Bluegrass Higher Education ConsortiumCharles Taylor Marshall, PhD, associate professor at the University of Kentucky (UK)...
Tags -
Posted - Sep 14Read More
Community Leadership Program Graduates Address Tobacco Use in High School Students in Appalachia
This article originally appeared at: https://uknow.uky.edu/research/community-leadership-program-graduates-address-tobacco-use-high-school-students-appalachiaBy Mallory PowellLEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 29, 2017) –...
Tags -
Posted - Sep 1Read More
Kentucky Homeplace Partnerships Increase Client Access to Chronic Disease Self-Management Education and Walking Programs
MEDIA CONTACT: Beth Bowling, beth.bowling@uky.edu, 606-439-3557Hazard, Ky. (Aug. 17, 2017) – Kentucky Homeplace, a well-established Community Health Worker (CHW) program founded at the University of Kentucky...
Tags -
Posted - Aug 21Read More
- ‹ previous
- 2 of 9
- next ›