Sarah Ladd
ReporterSarah Ladd is a Louisville-based journalist and Kentuckian. She has covered everything from crime to higher education. In 2020, she started reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and has covered health ever since.
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Kentucky’s child advocates are pointing to recent increases in injuries of children in licensed child care centers as more evidence that the workforce is overworked, underpaid and each worker is responsible for too many children. -
Medical providers are taking pain more seriously, but work remains, patients say -
Low-income Kentuckians getting much-needed cash payments through the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (or KTAP) will get less help starting in November. -
Planned Parenthood’s leadership has “no plans” to close its two Kentucky locations following a judge’s ruling that the government can block Medicaid funding to the organization for a year. -
A Kentucky judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to make the Cabinet for Health and Family Services implement a 2024 unfunded law — which intended to help kinship care families — and cooperate with a related investigation. -
The Kentucky Board of Social Work says a licensed counselor violated no laws when he wrote a social media post about the LGBTQ+ community in which he said “I personally (and professionally) never want to affirm rebellion against our Creator.” -
A Republican legislator from Alabama made the case for state-supported early childhood education Wednesday during a meeting of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s Pre-K for All Advisory Committee in Kentucky. -
Four unvaccinated Kentuckians have contracted the highly contagious measles, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) announced Friday. -
As U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie prepares to lead a debate on the future of Medicaid, his home state of Kentucky has more at stake than most. -
More than 80,000 Kentuckians aged 65 and older live with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis as reported in the 2025 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures Report, released by the Alzheimer’s Association last week.
