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Lifestyle medicine (LM) is a branch of medicine focused on preventive healthcare and self-care dealing with prevention, research, education, and treatment of disorders caused by lifestyle factors and preventable causes of death such as nutrition, physical inactivity, chronic stress, and self-destructive behaviors including the consumption of tobacco products and drug or alcohol abuse. [1]
The first patient was admitted May 1, 1824. Samuel Theobald, M.D., a physician on the hospital staff, and a member of the faculty of Transylvania University Medical School in Lexington, wrote a dissertation in 1828 arguing that the goal of the hospital was "the custodial care of the insane and the protection of society. Most of the lunatics ...
UK HealthCare is the health care system that is based on the campus of the University of Kentucky (UK) in Lexington, Kentucky. It consists of the university's hospitals, clinics, outreach locations, and patient care services along with UKs health profession colleges.
Opened in 1962, the Albert B. Chandler Hospital along Rose Street at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky is the flagship component of UK HealthCare. [2] It is named for twice-former Governor of Kentucky A. B. "Happy" Chandler.
An estimated 1.7 million former Lexington Medical Center patients and employees may have had their personal information stolen by hackers, a lawsuit filed in South Carolina federal court says.
King's Daughters' Hospital opened in 1897 as a three-room emergency hospital over the Poage, Elliott and Poage Drug Store on Winchester Avenue near 16th Street. [4] In 1899, the hospital itself was founded by the What-so-ever Circle of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons and moved to a seven-room building at 18th Street and Greenup Avenue.
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will launch Saturday in place of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. There are a variety of other national and local resources available as well. Learn more.
On November 16, 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Humana Inc. partnered to expand on traditional private-sector approaches to population health management. [ 12 ] In 2010, Humana bought Texas-based Concentra Inc., which owns urgent-care and physical therapy centers, for $790 million, effectively returning to ...