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Family and Community Medicine Team Receives National Award
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Department of Family and Community Medicine’s Primary Care Training Enhancement (PCTE) grant team was recently selected to receive the Outstanding Educational...
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Posted - Jan 22Read More
Marks Selected as UK's First Bell Addiction Medicine Scholar
Dr. Sarah Tully Marks, assistant professor and the associate residency program director in the University of Kentucky Department of Community and Family Medicine, has been selected as UK’s first Bell Addiction...
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Posted - Jan 21Read More
UHS Nurse is Changing the Narrative Surrounding Transgender Health
Students face challenges today that generations before them couldn’t even dream of. From using technology in the classroom to the pressures they feel from social media, the college experience today is...
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Posted - Nov 15Read More
UK's Transform Health Clinic Hosts 'Sound Off'
A developing issue within the health care realm is understanding what it means to be transgender inclusive. UK HealthCare’s Transform Health Clinic is hosting an event to discuss what it means to be...
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Posted - Nov 6Read More
New Grant Provides Retinopathy Screenings for Diabetics
Diabetes is a complex condition that requires patients to check in with providers across a number of specialties. Multiple appointments with practitioners can mean endless rounds of scheduling, traveling and...
Tags - Ophthalmology, Research
Posted - Oct 24Read More
Cardarelli Named Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine
Dr. Roberto Cardarelli has been named chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Cardarelli, who is also professor of family medicine, has...
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Posted - Aug 3Read More
UK Professor Wins Advocacy Award for LGBTQ* Health Care Initiative
Difficulty in accessing culturally affirming and informed health care has long deterred members of the LGBTQ* community from seeking fundamental services and resources. In 2016, Dr. Keisa Fallin-Bennett, an...
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Posted - Jun 27Read More
Family Medicine Doctors at UK Provide Care for Every Age
People lead busy lives and managing doctor appointments for the entire family can be challenging, especially if a different physician is needed for each family member according to age or health concern....
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Posted - Mar 30Read More
Transform Health Initiative Creates Clinical Settings Centered on Needs of LGBTQ Patients
Concerns about privacy, safety, stigmatization and quality of care have deterred members of the LGBTQ community from accessing health care services and resources. Disengagement from the health care system has...
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Posted - Sep 23Read More
UK Study Calls for Closer Examination of Transitional Care Management Program Effectiveness
Reducing excessive medical costs associated with high hospital readmission rates is a pillar of health care reform. From 2007 to 2011, as many as 19 percent of patients in the United States returned to...
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Posted - Jan 17Read More
Integrative Approach to Chronic Pain Management Gives New Hope for Patients
The debilitating pain of tophaceous gout, a chronic form of arthritis, has shackled William TIncher from a decent quality of life since he was a young man. Eager to serve his country, 18-year-old Tincher...
Tags - Family and Community Medicine
Posted - Aug 11Read More
Family Medicine Clinic Earns National Recognition
Few people think of a health care facility where they go to see their physician as a 'home,' but that's exactly the kind of environment Dr. Jonathan Ballard, medical director for the University of Kentucky's...
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Posted - Jul 24Read More
Ribbon Cutting Marks Official Opening of UK HealthCare at Turfland
At 10 a.m., Monday, April 20, a ribbon cutting ceremony will mark the official opening of UK HealthCare at Turfland, a new outpatient center on Harrodsburg Road in Lexington on the site of the former Turfland...
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Posted - Apr 20Read More
AHEC Conference Strengthens Partnerships with Community Faculty
The number of community health care professionals teaching University of Kentucky students and conducting field research continues to grow every year. Currently, more than 1,900 providers located in the state...
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Posted - Jan 30Read More
UK Pilot Study Tests Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
Within 30 days of discharge, 20 percent of fee-for-service Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital. The frequency of readmission for Medicare patients costs the nation an estimated $17 billion...
Tags - Family and Community Medicine, Kentucky Homeplace
Posted - Jan 13Read More
94 Year-Old Lexington Woman Gives Back as Research Volunteer
On Dec. 2, a very special group of people gathered to celebrate a very special gift. "Participation in clinical trials is a truly noble act, and we consider the people who volunteer for research part of our...
Tags - 490, UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Clinical Trials
Posted - Dec 19Read More
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