SAVE THE DATE: Friday, Nov. 10 for Covering Health: A News Workshop, in Madisonville; free of charge to all journalists - Health News

On Friday, Nov. 10 in Madisonville, the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky will present the latest in their series of workshops to help local journalists cover health care and health in Kentucky.

The presenters will include Al Cross, director of the institute and editor-publisher of Kentucky Health News; KHN reporter Melissa Patrick, a former nurse; Dr. Ellen Hahn of the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, who directs the Bridging Research Efforts and Advocacy Toward Health Environments (BREATHE) program; and Wayne Meriwether, CEO of Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center in Leitchfield, a leader of the Population Health Committee in Grayson County.

"Covering Health: A News Workshop" will run from mid-morning to mid-afternoon at the Ballard Convention Center, near the KY 70 interchange with Interstate 69 (formerly the Pennyrile Parkway). Lunch will be served, and the event will be free of charge, thanks to support from the foundation.

"We hope many reporters and editors who cover Western Kentucky will spend a few hours with us to learn how their reporting can help their readers, listeners and viewers live healthier lives and better understand the health-policy debates going on in Frankfort and Washington," Cross said. "We also invite their suggestions for the program."

The program will be announced soon. For a report on last year's workshop, in Eastern Kentucky, click here.

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