South Central Kentucky

Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, “Keeping Our Communities Healthy” grants will be given to 12 communities through Kentucky.

In the latest installment of Bridging the Great Health Divide, WBKO News Reporter Kelly Dean is looking into Edmonson County EMS as the agency cites barriers.

The American Red Cross urges donors to continue to make and keep appointments now and in the weeks ahead to help overcome the ongoing emergency blood and platelet shortage that has significantly impacted the nation’s blood supply. In fact, the current blood supply is the lowest the Red Cross has seen this time of year in more than a decade.

Since the Coronavirus pandemic, various medical fields have faced a critical staffing shortage, that includes local ambulance services.

“Early detection, that’s first and foremost,” said Margaret Ann Huff, a breast cancer survivor.

Edmonson County plans to use the $42,320 grant, which is a reimbursement, for new cardiac monitor defibrillators.

A surgical robot from Tristar Greenview Hospital in Bowling Green made an appearance at the SCK Launch Experience.

The American Red Cross continues to experience an emergency blood and platelet shortage that has caused the blood supply to drop to the lowest post-summer level in at least six years.

They ask that people register for an appointment by September 30.

American Red Cross has launched an initiative to grow the number of blood donors who are Black to help patients with sickle cell disease, an enduring and often invisible health disparity in the U.S.

The KDE has awarded Metcalfe County Schools a Kentucky Comprehensive Literacy grant.

After this past year of COVID-19, many families are feeling the financial impact of sending their children back to school.