Aprile Rickert
Aprile is WFPL's health reporter. Rickert comes to WFPL from the News and Tribune in Southern Indiana, where she covered crime and courts as a senior reporter. A New Albany native, she spent nearly two decades in Louisville before recently moving back across the river to Jeffersonville.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved Kentucky’s request to extend Medicaid from 60 days to 12 months for postpartum parents.
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Abortion access remains unchanged in Kentucky, even after legislators passed a measure to limit the procedure. A federal case brought against the state resulted in a partial block on the
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The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services is continuing to offer additional baby formula choices to WIC participants as the nationwide shortage presses on.
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Ky. Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed notice of appeal, after a federal judge extended her block of parts of a new Kentucky abortion law Thursday.
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The CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics are offering advice on securing formula.
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Of the 59 hospitals ranked in the state, only 11 got As in the spring report from the nonprofit The Leapfrog Group.
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When Republican state lawmakers in Kentucky passed a sweeping bill restricting abortion last month, providers halted surgical and medicine-induced abortions completely for more than a week.
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Gov. Andy Beshear said that if Roe v Wade is overturned, it will mean a near total ban on abortion in the state.
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The modified version will not include provisions abortion providers are already able to comply with.
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One of Kentucky’s two providers has resumed abortions up to 21 weeks and six days, following clarification from a federal judge.