New mobile resource coming to Kentucky communities in need of healthcare
FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — There are some Kentucky areas with less access to healthcare, but state leaders are working to get help to those who need it.
The Kentucky Primary Care Association (KPCA) is an organization with the mission of making sure everyone has access to healthcare. That's made easier by their newly acquired mobile health units. KPCA chief financial officer Rick Grant said this is a momentous moment.
Here's where Laurel, Pulaski County residents can get Social Security card replaced following tornadoes
'This project has been three years in the making, and so this contract and total was for 12 of these. This is five of the 12. After today, we only have one more to be delivered by the end of June, so we're excited to be close to the end,' Grant said.
These units will be delivered to areas like Warren and Whitley counties, for example, where they'll offer a bunch of services while eliminating the transportation barrier. Ryan Wiggington is the chief financial officer for Fairview Community Health Center in Bowling Green.
'One of the big populations of the underserved community that we have, it's kind of unique to Bowling Green, is the international center that we have in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I think one of the big benefits that we'll have is transportation. That's a big difficulty for them once they relocate to Bowling Green,' Wiggington said.
Larry Rector is the CEO of Dayspring Health, serving the Whitley County area.
'We are in Whitley County, which is one of the five poorest counties in Kentucky. For many of the youth in our area, their caregivers don't have the capabilities to take them to the clinic, so we look forward to using this for both primary care vaccinations and dental care in our communities,' Rector said.
Laurel County driver in deadly head-on crash enters plea
Attorney questions indictment of former Ky. sheriff in judge's death, moves to dismiss
New mobile resource coming to Kentucky communities in need of healthcare
Officials said the key thing here is accessibility. Anyone with insurance will have it billed, but even those who don't will still get a price worked out based on their income, making sure no one has to miss out on crucial care.
'A lot of our state officials, including Gov. Beshear's office and then Andy Barr, were also instrumental in helping us obtain the funding and protect the funding to make this happen. The goal of these units is to take healthcare to people who either can't or have an aversion to going to a brick-and-mortar clinic,' Grant said.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Yahoo
ScaleReady Announces a G-Rex® Grant has been awarded to Immuneel Therapeutics
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ScaleReady, in collaboration with Wilson Wolf Manufacturing, Bio-Techne Corporation and CellReady, today announced that Immuneel Therapeutics has been awarded a $150,000 G-Rex® Grant to support process development aimed at enhancing the scalability and cost-effectiveness of CAR-T cell manufacturing in India. "The blood cancer burden on India's population is substantial, around 120,000 new cases of lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma are diagnosed each year. Unfortunately, almost 70,000 Indians will die every year from these afflictions, devastating the lives of their families and communities. To afford access to all Indian patients in need, and to capitalize on the immense commercial potential of our pipeline, we need to think prudently and practically about our manufacturing approach. In the short term, our manufacturing demands are almost 200 drug products per day, and this may increase as CAR-T cell therapies move closer to front line treatment. The only practical way for us to industrialize our production and produce a supply of drug product commensurate with total patient demand is to transition to G-Rex," said Dr. Lakshmikanth Gandikota, Head of R&D, MSAT Intellectual Property, and Translational Research, at Immuneel Therapeutics Limited. "We are extremely impressed by the speed, resourcefulness, creativity, discipline, and entrepreneurialism of the team at Immuneel and are happy to see that India, as a whole, is making significant strides toward CAR-T availability. It gives us a great sense of satisfaction to be in a position to help bring hope to cancer patients in India, one G-Rex at a time," said John Wilson, CEO of Wilson Wolf and co-inventor of G-Rex. As part of Immuneel's G-Rex Grant, they will perform process development, qualification, and validation of a G-Rex based CAR-T cell therapy production approach to dramatically increase the throughput capacity of their state-of-the-art, 12,000 square foot GMP facility. Located in Bengaluru and opened in 2021, Immuneel's Integrated Cell Therapy Development and Manufacturing Facility was the first of its kind in India and is designed to bring breakthrough cell and gene therapies to millions of patients in India. Lastly, Immuneel's G-Rex Grant will support the requisite comparability studies necessary to support a post-CAR-T approval manufacturing change from their difficult to scale low throughput all-in-one manufacturing equipment to a much simpler high throughput G-Rex centric approach. The high popularity of ScaleReady's G-Rex Grant Program led ScaleReady to increase award funds from the original amount of $20M to a total of $30M directed towards saving recipients significant time and money by expediting the path to optimized cell and gene-modified cell therapy manufacturing. Two hundred grants have already been awarded with over 50 new applications in the queue. Each G-Rex Grant recipient can obtain up to $300,000 and gain access to exclusive support from ScaleReady's growing consortium of G-Rex Grant Partners who bring best-in-class tools and technologies as well as unparalleled knowledge and expertise in the areas of cGMP manufacturing, quality and regulatory affairs, CGT business operations, and more. For more information about the G-Rex® Grant Program, please contact info@ About ScaleReadyScaleReady provides the field of cell and gene-modified cell therapy (CGT) with a G-Rex centric manufacturing platform that enables the world's most practical, flexible, scalable, and affordable CGT drug product development and manufacturing. The G-Rex manufacturing platform is currently used by a rapidly growing list of over 800 organizations and is producing drug products for approximately 50% of CGT clinical trials as well as 5 commercially approved CGT drugs. CGT entities relying on the breadth and scope of ScaleReady's expertise can expect to save years of time and millions of dollars on the path to CGT commercialization. For more information about the ScaleReady G-Rex® Grant Program, please contact info@ About Wilson Wolf ManufacturingWilson Wolf ( is dedicated to simplifying cell and gene-modified cell (CGT) therapy research, process development, and manufacturing. This is being accomplished through its scalable G-Rex technology, which is used throughout the world in CGT applications ranging from basic research to commercial drug production. Wilson Wolf's mission is to create hope for cancer patients, one G-Rex® device at a time. About Bio-Techne CorporationBio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) is a global life sciences company providing innovative tools and bioactive reagents for the research and clinical diagnostic communities. Bio-Techne, in partnership with Wilson Wolf, is creating products such as media and cytokines that are specifically tailored to G-Rex® Bioreactors, including right-sized reagent quantities in containers that are tailored to high throughput closed-system manufacturing. For more information on Bio-Techne and its brands, please visit or follow the Company on social media at: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube. Contact: David Clair, Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate About CellReady LLCCellReady is the world's first and only G-Rex centric contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in G-Rex based cell and gene-modified cell therapy development and manufacturing. The company offers a wide range of services to support the development and commercialization of these therapies. CellReady's mission is to create hope for cancer patients, one G-Rex® process at a time. About Immuneel therapeutics Private LimitedImmuneel Therapeutics Private Limited is a cutting-edge biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India, at the forefront of advancing cell and gene therapies, as well as personalized immunotherapies, for cancer patients in India. As a research-driven and fully integrated organization, Immuneel is dedicated to making next-generation cancer treatments accessible and affordable, with a strong focus on innovation and clinical impact. The company's mission is to democratize advanced therapies by developing and commercializing breakthrough solutions tailored to the needs of Indian patients. As part of its growing portfolio, Immuneel has licensed and commercialized Qartemi® (varnimcabtagene autoleucel), a CD19 CAR-T cell therapy approved by India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) for the treatment of adult B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma a novel therapy for blood cancer, further demonstrating its commitment to transforming cancer care in India. Immuneel has a robust pipeline of CAR-T therapies for various indications in Oncology and AutoImmune diseases For more information, please visit: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Bio-Techne Corporation
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Kentucky ranks 36th in annual child well-being report
FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — The Annie E. Casey Foundation has just released the nation's annual Kids Count report, which ranked Kentucky 36th in overall child well-being. 'We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to improving economic stability, student achievement, and then child health and safety,' said Kentucky Youth Advocates' chief policy & strategy officer Shannon Moody. This year's ranking is up from 38th in last year's report and 40th in 2023, the last time Kentucky's ranking dropped. As Kentucky Youth Advocates break down the numbers, Moody said child poverty is the biggest indicator for them because of the effect it has on other metrics in this study. Man arrested after detectives allegedly find drugs, around 120 firearms in Kentucky home Kentucky ranks 36th in annual child well-being report Ignore texts from Kentucky DMV scammers, experts advise 'You know, poverty obviously can impact your education, access, and quality. Poverty can impact your nutrition and access to health, healthy foods,' she said. Kentucky has shown some small improvements in this category, but still reports more than 200 thousand children below the poverty line. Moody said she would encourage lawmakers to consider a variety of tax credits to address this area. Airbnb generates an estimated $590 million in Kentucky in 2024 Study shows Kentucky among the poorest states Kentucky's most misspelled word, according to study In education, the report is somewhat of a mirage. While that ranking is higher this year at 25th in the nation, each indicator, like math and reading proficiency, has gone down since the last report. 'We are definitely not seeing improvements on any of those measures when it comes to education, but the overall ranking is higher because some other states are just doing worse than we are,' Moody said. Read more of the latest health and wellness news Moody says there is positive news, like Kentucky ranking 3rd in the nation in insured children, but said a 28% rise in child and teen deaths is among the most concerning metrics. She said this indicator could be best addressed by improving the security of where people store prescription drugs and firearms, in addition to more mental health support. The 2025 Kids Count report can be explored here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Six people dead after small plane crash off San Diego coast
A small plane carrying six people crashed off the San Diego coast over the weekend, killing everyone onboard. The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed around 12:30 p.m. local time on Sunday a few miles west of Point Loma, one of the oldest seaside communities in San Diego. The Joint Operations Center, a joint command center for state and federal maritime operations, received the initial report about 15 minutes after the crash. Searchers from local and federal agencies located a debris field, a region where the remnants of the aircraft laid, as they looked for survivors by air and by sea. The water in the search area is about 200 feet deep, according to a press release from the U.S. Coast Guard. The presumed fatalities, according to a preliminary report by the FAA, includes five passengers and the pilot. The small plane crashed into the water under "unknown circumstances." The National Transportation Safety Board, the agency leading the investigation, did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment on Monday evening. Additional details about the crash, including the identities of those onboard, was not immediately available. According to flight tracking website the aircraft was returning to Phoenix a day after flying out from Arizona. The small plane, which departed from San Diego International Airport around 12:24 p.m. local time, crashed a few minutes after takeoff. The aircraft is registered to Optimal Health Systems, a holistic health company based in Pima, Arizona, which told USA TODAY on Monday evening that while the small plane was registered to the company, it had been sold to a "group of private individuals" in June 2023. "Though registration still shows the aircraft belonging to Optimal Health Systems, LCC, the agreement included escrow arrangements and full operation power," the company said in a statement. Doug Grant, founder of Optimal Health Systems, said they were "deeply saddened" to learn of the accident. "We personally knew several of the passengers onboard and our sincerest condolences are offered to those affected by the tragedy, all of whom are incredible members of our small community," Grant said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their loved ones." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Small plane crash off San Diego coast kills 6 people onboard
